{"id":240375,"date":"2026-08-05T07:46:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T05:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/malawi-scorchers-eye-perfect-record-as-malawi-chase-quarter-final-spot-at-womens-afcon-in-zambia-showdown\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T07:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T05:46:01","slug":"malawi-scorchers-eye-perfect-record-as-malawi-chase-quarter-final-spot-at-womens-afcon-in-zambia-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/malawi-scorchers-eye-perfect-record-as-malawi-chase-quarter-final-spot-at-womens-afcon-in-zambia-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi: Scorchers Eye Perfect Record As Malawi Chase Quarter-Final Spot At Women&#8217;s Afcon in Zambia Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Malawi Women&#8217;s national team head coach Lovemore Fazili says his Scorchers are gunning for a clean sweep of three wins from three as they close out the group stage of the 2026 Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Speaking on Tuesday ahead of Wednesday night&#8217;s crunch Group C finale against neighbours Zambia at Al Medina Stadium, Fazili made clear his side aren&#8217;t settling for anything less than maximum points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The Scorchers will be without defender Rose Alufandika, who picked up a straight red&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608050039.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Women&#8217;s national team head coach Lovemore Fazili says his Scorchers are gunning for a clean sweep of three wins from three as they close out the group stage of the 2026 Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco. Speaking on Tuesday ahead of Wednesday night&#8217;s crunch Group C finale against neighbours Zambia at Al [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[9488,258,256,7842,9381,5028,257,13099,19316,5267,55051,11502,254,7506,6460,4709,881],"class_list":["post-240375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chase","tag-eye","tag-malawi","tag-news","tag-perfect","tag-quarterfinal","tag-record","tag-scorchers","tag-showdown","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spot","tag-womens","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}