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Allen Khumalo, Sports Reporter
BOSSO90 and Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Bulawayo sailed through to the final of the Southern Region Division One Soccer League’s Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Trukumb Mining Enterprises Top Eight Cup after winning their respective games yesterday.

Bosso90 and ZRP Bulawayo will fight it out in the final to be played at Hartsfield Ground on Saturday.

ZRP Bulawayo needed a 4-2 penalty shootout win against Victoria Falls’ Amagagasi in the first semi-final encounter played at Hartsfield Ground yesterday. The match had ended 0-0.

Bosso90 went on to beat visiting ZPC Hwange 2-0, getting their goals from Brendon Dube and Muzi Dlamini.

Despite the win, Bosso90 coach Melusi Sibanda felt his team could have done more.

“I am happy with the win although the guys did not perform the way we expected. The pitch was a little bumpy and if we were in a different pitch we would have won the match by four goals or more. Our opponents were not in the game so we should have done better than this. What is however pleasing is that we won the match so it’s a good result for us,” said Sibanda.

ZRP Bulawayo coach, Rodgers Ndlovu was happy with his team’s performance.

“I’m happy with how we defended. When you look at our game we had very few shots at goal as our strikers were not aggressive upfront. We will go and work on our mistakes and hope to do better in the final against Bosso 90,” said Ndlovu.

The winner of the tournament will take home $2 400 with the runners-up pocketing $1 500.

Amagagasi and ZPC Hwange got $700 each for reaching the semi-final stage.

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