Dragons outclass Red Wipers to move closer to league title  

By BHEKIMPILO WEZA 

The Mvuthu Football Association (Mvufa) league log leaders, the Dragons proved to be too strong for the Red Wipers in a much awaited and possibly a title decider played at Maransu Stadium last weekend.

When the match kicked off at 4PM on Sunday, the pendulum could be seen swinging to where the Mvufa title would end as Chidobe village’s stars, Dragon applied pressure from the onset.

As they mounted the pressure, their breakthrough came in the 28th minute when Red Wipers defender Renius Moyo misjudged his header to set a Dragons’ striker who was in an acute angle,

He controlled the ball and slotted the opener with a cheeky finish that went straight to the left bottom corner to beat the Wipers goal minder.

The goal seemed to have ignited Dragons’ fire as they resurfaced again five minutes later, but their chief striker Mqabuko Ndlovu, who scored a contender for goal of the season.

Ndlovu’s effort first failed as he attempted to head it into a corner as the resultant ball hit against the Red Wipers’ defensive wall.

He, however, did not lose hope as he immediately recovered to beat one defender and when the opposition players were expecting him to cross the ball, he went for power and precision, pushing the ball through the legs of three Red Wipers defenders and a goalkeeper.

In the second half, Red Wipers tried to push e forward but that almost cost them as Dragons almost got their third but Ndlovu was judged to have infringed the goalkeeper.

In the second half till the end, the Red Wipers struggled to find a breakthrough as their midfield players could not rise to the occasion in a battle that was won by Dragons captain and man of the match Abel Dube.

“We are on a journey to the title, and we will take every game as it comes,” Dragons coach Lot Ndlovu said.

However, Dube, the Dragons captain was of the view that the scoreline was not a true reflection of the way they had played and dominated the whole game.

“We could have scored more than five goals,” Dube said.

The win took Dragons to 57 points, 10 clear of second placed Red Wipers.

There are eight games left to wrap up the league.

In other weekend fixtures, Zamalek dented Cer Class’ title charge when they beat them 1-0 courtesy of Thinkwell Weza’s goal after 60 minutes of the match.

At Bh28, Wounded Buffaloes handed other title hopefuls Ajax their third defeat and second in succession.

Wounded Buffaloes scored four easy goals as blunders by goalkeeper Cloud Dube cost them.

Lupinyo City were the only big winners on Saturday as they clobbered Black Bulls by four goals to nil to move to third on the log with 44 points from 21 games.

At Bh27, Masters continued to collect points with a 1-0 scoreline away to Super Eagles.

Power Stars were defeated by Ndlovu United by two goals, Mopane got three better of Moro Moro.