City rivals meet at Mpira Stadium on Sunday as FCB Nyasa Big Bullets Women host Mighty Wanderers Queens in the Blantyre women\u2019s derby.<\/p>\n
The Week Eight encounter kicks off at 15:00, with derby honours and three NBM Women\u2019s Premiership points at stake in the sides\u2019 first league meeting of the season.<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s encounter is the first of back-to-back Blantyre derby weekends, with the rivalry continuing when the men\u2019s teams meet a week later.<\/p>\n
Maggie Chombo\u2019s side head into the contest following Saturday\u2019s 6-1 victory over Rumphi Sisters at the same venue, our biggest league win of the campaign.<\/p>\n
Captain Mary Chavinda led that performance with a hat-trick, while Vanessa Issa scored twice and Lyna James also found the net as the Maule Ladies returned to winning ways.<\/p>\n
The result kept Bullets third on 15 points from seven matches, level with second-placed Ascent Soccer Academy and three behind leaders Silver Strikers Ladies.<\/p>\n
We have won five of our opening seven matches, scoring 15 goals and conceding five.<\/p>\n
Wanderers Queens arrive seventh in the standings on seven points. The Nomads have recorded two wins, one draw and four defeats, scoring 12 goals and conceding 21.<\/p>\n
Recent derby meetings have been decided by fine margins.<\/p>\n
Bullets won both encounters in the inaugural NBM Women\u2019s Premiership campaign last term, with a single goal separating the sides on each occasion at Mpira Stadium.<\/p>\n
Ioulia Yiannakis settled the first with a late free kick before Triza Chiwere struck the winner in the reverse fixture to complete the league double.<\/p>\n
The most recent meeting went the Nomads\u2019 way, however, as they edged Bullets 2-1 in the Mayor\u2019s Bonanza third-place playoff.<\/p>\n
Sunday brings the Blantyre women\u2019s derby back to league competition, with Bullets looking to carry their attacking form against Rumphi into the contest and secure a third successive Premiership victory over our city rivals.<\/p>\n
Three points would also ensure we gain ground on at least one of the leading pair, with Ascent hosting Silver Strikers Ladies in Lilongwe the same afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City rivals meet at Mpira Stadium on Sunday as FCB Nyasa Big Bullets Women host Mighty Wanderers Queens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[143278,143279,143280,143281,143282,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-399554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-blantyre-womens-derby","tag-bullets-women","tag-fcb-nyasa-big-bullets","tag-mighty-wanderers-queens","tag-nbm-womens-premiership","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}