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Upon reflection maybe we erred by delaying to effect a change,\u201d Chidzambwa said according to ZiFM sports caster Mike Madoda.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors\u2019 next game is against table-topping Uganda on Wednesday and Chidzambwa\u2019s charges will know that anything but a win will jeopardise their chances of progressing to the next round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warriors coach Sunday \u2018Mhofu\u2019 Chidzambwa has opened up on why he delayed in replacing captain Knowledge Musona even though the Smiling Assasin was not having the best of games Musona was replaced by Talent Chawapiwa in the 85th minute during Friday\u2019s defeat to hosts Egypt and the coach has explained his decision. \u201cIt\u2019s only that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":10435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[84,390,598,74],"class_list":["post-10433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football","tag-league","tag-premier-soccer-league","tag-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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