Tout Puissant Mazembe

At the end of a controlled match, except for some brilliant actions of the visitors at the beginning of the second half, the Ravens overcome Sanga Balende. Dominators, Rainford KALABA and his partners will be deprived of the opening of the score after an action where there was no offside action after the strike of Meschak Elia, no offense for the poor assistant 1 Blaise NABINA. Then, the pressure will rise in the stands but the fire is finally extinguished by a firefighter named Ben MALANGO author of the winning goal, taking a free kick from ELIA with a uncrossed head in the last quarter of an hour.

With 33 points, the TPM takes the lead at the top of the group.

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Match No. 56 of the South-Central Development Zone: Tout Puissant Mazembe receives Sa Majesté Sanga Balende, this Sunday, January 28, 2018 at the Temple of Badiangwenas

Welcome to this live-text from the box Press in Mazembe stadium

13,000 spectators expected for this Classico, announces the ticketing

The TV production team is already there, but weather conditions has some problems for the satellite link.

After the draw of 49 days in Mbuji-Mayi, Ravens (30 points) and Anges & Saints (19 points and one match to play) meet in Kamalondo. We expect goals this, the beautiful show and a beautiful afternoon. Good Sunday to all!

"Respect all our opponents while taking the value of this competition seriously ..."; "The team that will not play in the game and in the physical impact will only be able to blame itself..."; "It will be played out on the mental plane..."; Be vigilant with the opponent "who throws all the balls in front in the hope of getting several set pieces"; The team of Moïse KATUMBI "plays all his matches to win them. It has to play very collective and it is ready to challenge Sanga Balende ... and get the three points”. These are the words of David MWAKASU (Assistant Coach) and Arsène ZOLA (Left-back), selected in the pre-match press conference

Referee, MONGANGA NGBANDA from Province of Equateur, assisted by NABINA SEBUTU and MBENGELE TSHIBANGU from Kinshasa, on the bench Julie KYABUTA KANYEMBO from Katanga, match commissioner Jérôme SANGWA and a Delegate of LINAFOOT, Jean Claude LIAMBI

KICK OFF IN KAMALONDO

3^rd Penetrating pass from ELIA for ISSAMA who crosses, KALAMBAYI the goalkeeper KALAMBAYI stops

5^th Second action of the Ravens, SATEU was almost about to score against his team, fortunately the goalkeeper KALAMBAYI was on the lookout. 0-0

7^th Foul by ZOLA in half of the pitch, LUBAKI's free-kick passes over

8^th Foul on Ben MALANGO, KALABA free-kick at 22m also passes over

9^th Sanga Balende counter, KABASO fouls LUBAKI. And on the free kick that follows, KIMWAKI saves his camp

13^th Control of NGULUBI, at the entrance to the penalty area of GBOHOUO, he walks on the ball and KIMWAKI relaunches the game

16^th Powerful crossing ball by MALANGO, after a good combination with ELIA. A foot of a defender of Sanga Balende diverts it into corner

23^rd Sanga Balende's first corner kick played at the first post, Sylvain GBOHOUO easily picks it up. Still 0-0

26^th Yellow to CHONGO for a hand foul

27^th Shot of ELIA at 35m. SangaBalende deflects into a corner after the ball hits the post

28^th On the corner that follows, hand foul in the surface of the visitors. The referee does not say anything...

32^nd Lubuki KINKELA after a duel lost against Joël KIMWAKI, gets injured and is replaced by Faustin KIBUKI

36^th A defender of Sanga Balende returns the ball by an acrobatic volley, KALABA at 30m tries to lob the goalkeeper. A KALAMBAYI save keeps the score at 0-0

38^th Goal!.. Elia's Strike At the entrance of the penalty area, the goalkeeper puts the ball back into play and scrambles into the box ... Too bad the assistant 1NABINASEBUTU raises his flag for ... offside. Not obvious, because the goal seems valid. 0-0

45^th KALAMBAYI still saves his team, on MIKA shot at 20m following ELIA's corner. Still 0-0 at the scorer

HALF-TIME ON 0-0 SCORE. In this first period, we saw a clear domination of the men of Pamphile MIHAYO who stumbled, at least 5 times, on KALAMBAYI KATEMBWE the Goalkeeper. It's a good average rating given to the day's arbitration trio

RESUMPTION IN THE TEMPLE OF BADIANGWENAS.  It's Mazembe who starts

50^th Illegal challenge by the bib number 14 of Mazembe, CHONGO, on the number 14 of SangaBalende, KANKU, who went on a cons. It's a throw in

51^st On the throw in of visitors, strikes at 30 m of MUSEMA – came in at the beginning of the second period – It fails on GBOHOUO crossbar. 0-0

56^th ELIA goes on the left and crosses, it passes in front of the cage

57^th MALANGO head at point-blank on goalkeeper after ISSAMA crossing ball

59^th Missed opportunity of Sanga Balende. NGULUBI shots over the crossbar

60^th Adama TRAORE replaces Christian KOUAME. This is the offensive option chosen by the technical staff of Mazembe

61^st Sylvain GBOHOUO won the duel face-to-face with MUSEMANGOWA. Still 0-0

63^rd Long ball of CHONGO for TRAORE it goes aside

67^th Captain KALABA replaced by Trésor MPUTU

69^th On a long ball, Faustin KIBUKI shots and finds the small net of Sylvain GBOHOUO. 0-0 at the scoreboard

71^st Yellow to AGYIRI Nana Koffi for a foul on Arsène ZOLA

73^rd HEADED GOOOOOAL BY MALANGO… On a Free-kick out wide by ELIA 1-0

78^th Great altercation on an imaginary foul in favor of the visitors. Game stopped...

81^st On resumption and LUSIELA fails to equalize

82^nd Substitution on Sanga Balende side, AGYIRI Abdul Razak comes out and KAYEMBE MUKENDI goes up

90^th Opportunity of 2-0 missed by Tresor MPUTU on a pass back of Meschak ELIA. A foot of a Sanga Balende defender sent the ball over

5 minutes of additional time

90^th+1 USHINDI replaces ELIA

90^th+2 MPUTU launches USHINDI at the midline. Offside whistle

90^th+3 GBOHOUO stays on the ground after the duel won over KAYEMBE in the air

END OF CLASSICO 1-0.  TP Mazembe was dominating throughout the game despite the awakening in the second half of Sa Majesté Sanga Balende. Congratulations to Pamphile MIHAYO for controlling his subject.