Tuesday, January 26, 2010

The day Tinashe didn't score


Gaborone- FC Broadhurst collected maximum points against bitter city rivals Gaborone Central last sunday in a 9 goal thriller that saw the striking duo of Benjamin and Tinashe fail to register their names on the score sheet, for the first time in as many games.

But it was Tinashe's failure to score on a morning that saw "prodigal son", Zeal grab a hat trick, that hogged the limelight as it has become certain that he scores in every game. It just not his day but however he went home with a merry heart as he had a trio of assists.

Maybe this is the turning of a new leaf for a player often criticised, even by one Cephas of struggling G West FC, of being able not to pass the ball to his team mates. Three assists are no fluke that the player is coming to the realisation and full understanding of the word "teamwork".

Benjamin also failed to score, with the other goals coming from Toffy whose constant sterling performance week in week out, can not be over emphasised. Toffy grabbed a brace to cap yet another beautiful day on the wide side of the midfield. Does this therefore imply that Benjamin and Tinashe feed off each other? If so then this will present problems for Coach Bongs who has vowed not have the duo in same line up. The coach's arguement is that the pair rarely passes the ball to any other play instead "Benji" chooses to pass the ball to "Tinz" who also kindly returns the favour regardless of which part of the field his striking partner would be at.

The coach's wrath over the pair's unsporting behaviour was trebled during one game when the coach himself was playing. He was a in a good scoring position, just by the edge of the 16 yard area when Tinz got a pass from Simba with the only logical and possible thing to do was to turn to his right and slide the ball to a Bongs who was calling for it. Maybe Tinz goes deaf to other voices on the pitch except for that of Benji, because instead of passing his long suffering coach, Tinz turn to his left and tried to scoop the ball to his Benji who was clouded by a thicket of defenders.

That marked the end of wonderful move that had seen Thutsi make an unusual successful run on the right flank. "Yikho ngingafuni ukulidlalisa loyiTwo (that's why i don't want to play the two of you at the same time)," was how Coach Bongs reacted to Tinz's move.

1 comment:

  1. Zeal scored a hat trick and toffy scored a brace. but the architect of almost all of those goals was none otha than tins himself

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