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Tobias Mandoreba Hwange Correspondent
HWANGE Premier League football hopefuls Technosphere are treating all their remaining eight games as a matter of life and death as these encounters stand between the team and a place in the nation’s elite league next year.
Try Ncube, the team’s head coach spoke to Chronicle Sport ahead of what should be a cliffhanger and explosive Zifa Southern Region Division One Soccer league derby duel between his side and ZPC Hwange this afternoon at the Old ground.

The match, set to attract a huge crowd, kicks off at 3pm.
Hwange will witness a dosage of derbies today as Hwange’s developmental side takes on a still mourning Mpumalanga at the Colliery Stadium.
However, the real action is at Old Grounds.

“We are now treating every game like a cup final as we are fully aware that if we pick up maximum points in each match we will be crowned champions at the end of the season.

ZPC Hwange is a good side and we respect them but the boys are now fired up for the biggest fight of their football careers,” he said.
Ncube will hope for a repeat of last weekend’s classic performance as Technosphere demolished another Hwange outfit Mpumalanga 6-0 at the same venue through goals by Manyando Zulu, Tryfortune Ncube, Gift Jikila, Joel Lunga, Stanford Mpala and Trust Nkomazana.

Troubled ZPC Hwange, whose players are reportedly owed over $1,000 in winning bonuses, are still in with a mathematical chance to grab the big one.
The electricity men are geared for the game as they seek revenge for the 3-0 drubbing at the hands of their bitter rivals at home in the reverse fixture.
“It will be a tough match for sure but as a team we are seeking to maintain consistency up to the end regardless of which team we play.

“The mathematics on the log show that anything is possible hence we are going out for all three points and see what happens later, ” said Njabulo “JB” Dube, the electricity generators gaffer.

Dube will bank on the likes of seasoned goalkeeper Brightlike Kekala, captain Azere Kwabe, Tawanda Chando, Bekithemba Nyoni, Isaac Howard and Desire Shumbanhete for a result which will leave Technosphere’s quest to reach the promised land in total disarray.

As this league goes into a phase where boys are separated from men, second placed Technosphere are two points behind Black Boots with 36 points from 18 games, one less than the league pacesetters  while ZPC Hwange are sixth with 32 points from 19 games.

ZPC Hwange’s title win will however be dented by the new football rules under the club licensing programme that prohibits teams under the same management to play in one league.

Technosphere director Ozias Taruvinga, a passionate soccer fanatic, is highly optimistic that the ambitious project he created in 2010 will at last blossom into a complete football brand by qualifying to play in Zimbabwe’s premier league in 2015.

In other fixtures, Lizwe Sweswe’s Tsholotsho takes on Quelaton at the Nust Grounds while security forces Ntabazinduna and Elephants clash at Ntabazinduna.

Fixtures
Today:
Quelaton v Tsholotsho (Nust), Ntabazinduna v Elephants (Ntabazinduna), Plumtree Chiefs v Black Boots (Raylton), Technosphere v ZPC Hwange ( Old Ground), New West v P/Cement, Hwange U-20 v Mpumalanga (Colliery)
Tomorrow: Trumus v Old Nic Mine (Chinotimba)