The Malawi Under-15 Boys’ National Football Team maintained their perfect start at the inaugural Under-15 Fifa World Cup and Festival yesterday when they beat Oman and Suriname by 3-1 margins in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Malawi’ have now won all their three matches after starting their Group B campaign with a 3-2 win from behind over China Taipei on Saturday.
According to Fam.mw, in both yesterday’s matches, Malawi produced a vintage second half comeback shows to beat Oman and Suriname at Hovsan Complex and bag full points.
Takutzwa Maluwe, Lameck Kamanga and Sipho Ngwira were on target for Malawi. against Oman which was played in the morning.
Maluwe. | Courtesy of FAM
In the afternoon, Malawi again came from a goal down at half time to beat Suriname.
Maluwe netted the equaliser before Jazaka Amidu claimed a brace to seal the third straight victory.
Maluwe is turning into Malawi’s hitman as he also scored a brace against China Taipei.
He has now taken his tally to four goals.
Malawi will complete their Group B fixtures against Algeria and Argentina today.
The competition is being played in a right-versus-eight format, with teams progressing from the group phase into different tournament tiers based on their results.
Following was the starting line-up for Malawi in yesterday’s first match: Fightwell Musukuwa, Elisha Nyirenda, Favour Mwiba, Lameck Kamanga, Maluwe, Initious Adam, Jazaka Amidu and Innocent Jauma.
