Wa Ganyu
The question was, who heard the voice of an angel to come and restore happiness at Mighty Mukuru Wanderers?
On March 4, Nsanzurwimo Ramadhan claimed he heard the voice.
However, instead of bringing the much awaited happiness, he plunged Nomads further into the wilderness after back to back defeats to Silver Strikers and Mzuzu City Hammers to a point of resigning.
On Saturday 1st 2024, Meck Mwase took charge of a broken team which produced three beautiful goals and collected maximum points over Dedza Dynamos, a team which they failed to beat the last time they met at the same Kamuzu Stadium in the last season.
Mwase started his job as a caretaker coach with a massive 3-1 victory coming on the first day of the month of June giving hope of happiness to Nomads.
However, the first match of the game gave fans a lot of questions as his Wanderers struggled despite finding the opener just 3 minutes in the first half through Christopher Kumwembe.
Mwase started the match with three strikers in front; Kumwembe, Clement Nyondo and a new man Sama Thierry Tanjong who made his debut for the team.
Behind them, Mwase brought Gaddie Chirwa and Wisdom Mpinganjira, giving much work to Blessings Singini to control the midfield.
It was a disaster as the three strikers fought for positions. The centre had serious gaps giving room to the visitors to win possession causing problems in Wanderers’ defence.
At 19 minutes it was level, with Chifuniro Mpinganjira utilising the defence lapse to equalise. First half ended 1-all.
At half time, calls were made for a substitution and Mwase yielded by bringing in Issac Kaliati and Felix Zulu to man the centre taking out Tanjong and Nyondo. Dedza also introduced Victor Lungu, replacing Limbani Phiri.
Seven minutes into the second half Wanderers were ahead courtesy of Isaac Kaliati who struck from nowhere only to see the ball thunderously make its way to the back of the net with everyone on and off the pitch just watching.
At 64 minutes it was Kaliati again completing his brace heading home a squared header from Peter Cholopi that had originated from the corner kick.
It ended 3-1 to Wanderers. With the victory, the Nomads moved to fourth on the log table. With their first defeat of the season, Dedza dropped to 9th.
Mwase was happy with the victory; “we needed goals hence we started with more strikers,” he said while Dedza coach Andrew Bunya conceded defeat, “we tried to contain them but we failed in the second half,” he said.
