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DYNAMOS management will only make a decision regarding the future of head coach Paulo Jorge Silva after their weekend Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match away to Hwange.

DYNAMOS management will only make a decision regarding the future of head coach Paulo Jorge Silva after their weekend Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match away to Hwange.

BY TAWANDA TAFIRENYIKA

DeMbare set the whole technical team a target of nine points in their three matches against Mutare City, Caps United and Hwange, but the popular Harare giants have only managed three points from two matches.

This means the coaches will miss their target and after the executive promised to wield the axe if the target was missed, the burning question after the derby 0-1 defeat to Caps on Sunday was whether Dynamos president Keni Mubaiwa and company would stick to their word.

Caps United striker Dominic Chungwa provided the killer blow, which many thought had condemned Silva.

Dynamos, on the other hand, had given a good account of themselves, with good displays in parts, but they failed to back that up with goals.

Before they beat Mutare City 2-1 last week, they had gone for five matches without a win in both league and cup competitions.

Worryingly, they had also failed to score in those five matches, which triggered an emergency meeting to review the situation by the hierarchy where they came up with the ultimatum.

Silva still insists that there is no such arrangement even though his bosses went public about it.

Mubaiwa yesterday said they would only make a decision after their league match against Hwange at the weekend.

He said it would be unprofessional for them to discuss the coach’s future after only two matches.

Dynamos will also resist any pressure to make a decision before the match against Hwange and Silva could yet save his job, it seems.

“We don’t think it’s professional for us to make a decision at this stage because there is still one more game against Hwange,” Mubaiwa said.

“We were not judging the coach over two games, but three games. So that means we will wait until after the match against Hwange to review the performance of the team and then make a decision based on that. We have said we want nine points from the three matches, but a decision to fire or let him go can only be reached after the weekend.”

Up until Sunday, Dynamos had dominated the Harare derby since Caps United ran out 2-0 winners in 2009, with Nyasha Mushekwi scoring a double.

And the loss to their bitter rivals on Sunday meant Silva became the first coach to fall to the Green Machine in the last seven years.

His team, though, gave everything on Sunday and at times dominated so much that with a little bit of luck, they could have wrapped up the contest.

Based on Sunday’s performance, some observers believe Silva showed great potential to take the team to another level and should be given another chance.

The defeat to Caps was a bitter pill to swallow for the Dynamos faithful after they were given so much hope by the first half performance, where they matched Lloyd Chitembwe’s team, who went into the clash as the favourites.

Chitembwe observed that Caps prevailed because they had better player quality and if the Dynamos leadership could be persuaded to share that opinion, then Silva might live to die another day.