The Sunday Mail
Fungai Muderere in Bulawayo
Chicken Inn……………………………………(2) 4
TelOne………………………………………….. (1) 1
CHICKEN Inn might not have won the 2019 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League championship but they secured second spot with a demolition of TelOne a Barbourfields yesterday.
It was a bad result for TelOne who were relegated from the PSL after just one season in the country’s top league.
With the news that Zimbabwe could get two more slots in the 2020/2021 CAF inter-club competitions, giving the country four representatives, Gamecocks will probably be preparing for an African sojourn thanks to the four goals that were scored by Innocent Muchaneka, Valentine Kadonzvo, George Majika and substitute Sipho Ndlovu. Muchaneka converted his goal from the penalty spot in the second minute.
Kadonzvo made it two for Chicken Inn in the 40th minute with a close-range effort after a beautiful exchange of passes with hard running Obriel Chirinda. A goalkeeping howler in the 86th minute by Raphael Pitisi saw Majika register his name on the score sheet after letting loose a curling free kick with his deadly left foot that reduced Pitisi to a villain After making a solo run from the middle of the park, Ndlovu made it four Gamecocks two minutes into referee’s optional time.
The Wifi-Boys got their face saver through veteran Jacob Muzokomba who nodded home a well taken Marvelous Chigumira free kick in the sixth minute.
An elated Chicken Inn head coach Joey Antipas said:
“I’m happy with the good finish that we had. We came into the match with something to play for and I’m happy that we have finished the season on position two. We had a big chance to win the league and our boys had a good run. Out of 100, we can give ourselves 90 percent as our score mark.”
Despair engulfed the TelOne dressing and Rahman Gumbo, hired to save the team, declined to grant the media a mandatory post-match interview referring journalists to his assistant Lloyd Mutasa.
There was no joy from Mutasa either as he quickly dashed to their dressing room.
