Harare — ZIMBABWE'S Warriors set up a potentially explosive Cosafa Senior Challenge Cup semi-final showdown with old enemies South Africa when they edged battling Botswana in a lively quarter-final tie at Barbourfields yesterday. Midfielder Mthulisi Maphosa struck a late, late winner that ensured that the Warriors set a date with Bafana in the first of the two-semi-finals at Rufaro tomorrow. Maphosa scrambled home a Tafadzwa Rusike corner two minutes from time to torch wild celebrations at a packed Barbourfields where an estimated 20 000 appreciative fans were treated to a double header that involved three of the tournament's heavyweights. The fans had earlier watched Bafana Bafana destroy Angola 2-0 in the first of the quarter-finals that were served at Barbourfields yesterday. That was before Maphosa, reinstated in the...
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