HARARE City Football Club coach Taurai Mangwiro believes his team is a contender for the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League title, but has demanded for consistency from his players if they are to achieve their season’s ultimate goal.
BY HENRY MHARA
The Sunshine Boys, who humbled Hwange 4-1 in their last league match, have a tough trip to unbeaten FC Platinum this weekend searching for their first win on the road this season.
While the former Caps United coach was happy in the way his team dismantled Hwange, results from the previous three matches – a 1-0 away loss to Triangle, 4-1 win over Mutare City and a 2-1 defeat to Caps United – always remind him of the need for hard work.
He wants his players to carry on from where they left last week.
“We want to be consistent and I am sure an away victory is what our season needs and it can help us going into the future matches,” Mangwiro said.
But in FC Platinum, they are facing the best team in the league so far this season, riding on a perfect record from the first four matches.
“We have to raise our game, we have to play our A game because FC Platinum are doing well. I have great respect for their coach (Norman Mapeza), who is one of my best coaches, he has done well since he took over. He was under pressure in the initial stages, but he has steadied the ship. Respect we will give them because they have done well, but no fear whatsoever.
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“It’s not like we have been playing dismally in the matches we lost. Hopefully, it would be our first victory away. We needed that win (over Hwange) because had we lost, it was going to be a big ask in terms of lifting morale going forward especially in the next match.
Mangwiro will be travelling to Zvishavane without a number of his regulars, but he is calm about it.
Ronald Chitiyo, James Jam and Tanaka Ruzvidzo are still out injured, while Maxwell Nyamupangedengu and Martin Vengesayi are committed to academic studies.
Harare City have not managed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches so far this term, an area that Mangwiro said needed improvement.
