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Langton Nyakwenda
AFTER scoring five Premier Soccer League goals, plus one big one in the 2023 Chibuku Super Cup final, it was no surprise when Elton Chikona won the Most Promising Player award.
Chikona capped the 2023 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League season in style, opening the scoring as Dynamos beat Ngezi Platinum Stars 2-0 to bag their maiden Chibuku Super Cup at Baobab on December 3.
Emmanuel Paga, who was DeMbare’s top scorer with 10 goals, scored the other goal in that final.
Naturally, it was expected the two would take their form into the 2024 season.
Sadly, both forwards have struggled this term.
Although he has had little game time, it’s still unbelievable that Chikona is yet to open his account, with Dynamos going into a penultimate fixture against Ngezi Platinum Stars at Baobab, on Saturday.
Paga has been stuck on three goals since June.
DeMbare’s leading scorer is a winger, Valentine Kadonzvo, who has five goals, and is 11 behind the league’s top scorer Lynoth Chikuhwa of Highlanders.
The Harare giants have scored 28 goals in 32 matches, at an average of 0.9 goals per match.
DeMbare had the same return at the halfway stage, when Genesis Mangombe was still in charge.
Lloyd “MaBlanyo” Chigowe replaced Mangombe in August, but the veteran gaffer has also failed to find the solution to this perennial goal scoring crisis.
In one of the interviews with this publication, Chigowe acknowledged the crisis.
“Scoring has been a problem at the club but we are trying to come up with methods that should see us getting goals from different sources,” he said.
Mangombe, also sang from the same hymn book, a few weeks before he was fired.
“It’s not healthy to have a top scorer with three goals, it’s not proper for a team like Dynamos.”
DeMbare have scored 16 goals less than FC Platinum have 44 goals.
Highlanders have 42 goals, Ngezi Platinum Stars are on 41 while new champions Simba Bhora have banged 39.
DeMbare’s rivals CAPS United have 37 goals.
Yadah (36) and TelOne (34) both have a better goal return than Dynamos.
Namibian striker Sadyney Urikhob arrived on the local scene early this year as a highly-rated and vastly-experienced striker, but the bald headed forward has failed to live up to the hype.
Urikhob has three league goals to his name.
Alexander Mandinyenya has one goal.
Online Reporter