Good afternoon family. We are now live at the Chiefs Village awaiting what promises to be a blockbuster encounter between two powerhouses hosts Bulawayo Chiefs and Chipangano. Warm up time now as the boys gear up to take the precious three points back to the coal mining town.

It is from "smally" that we expect a " biggy" inspiration 🔥🔥. On a good day, the lad slices through opposition like a hot knife on butter and today we expect the same dosage of sublime and exquisite ⚽ to make our day !!!

Our X1 today . # Fire 🔥 in action

Barely a minute Hwange surges ahead as Mandla Gasela bangs home to stun Chiefs Chiefs 0 Hwange 1. I minute

After a teasing cut back from Mongameli Tshuma

Six minutes in Chiefs equalize 1 - 1 at Chiefs Village

Thirteen minutes in Hwange with a huge chance to regain lead but Chiefs goalkeeper "says thank you" to Morestuff Ncube for a tame effort from close range

20 mins still 1 - 1 at Chiefs Village match evenly balanced and lived up to it's pre match billing as the headline fixture for the league this weekend

28 minutes in we are now living dangerously as we are allowing Chiefs to throw everything at us but they are lacking precision in front of goal. Still 1 - 1

Five mins from halftime Morestuff with another opportunity but fails to have power behind his attempt to chip the goalkeeper thereby allowing goalkeeper Matripples Muleya all the time in the world to recover and save the effort before it crosses the line

Referee blows to end the opening half Bulawayo Chiefs 1 Hwange 1 . An opening stanza in which we had our chances like the hosts to get to the breather in front. We await second half action to try and grind out three points .

Second half resumes at the Chiefs Village

10 minutes into the last half and still same scoreline...the first half tempo seems like have fizzled out from both teams thus far

Pritchard comes in for Mongameli 65th minute as Hwange technical bench tries to juggle the formula to change the complexion of the game

Advantage Hwange on numerical advantage after Chiefs player gets red carded for a dangerous tackle. Chipangano have 20 minutes to make the advantage work

Lucky Nyathi immediately comes in and out goes goal scorer Mandla Gasela

Tinotenda Chiinye and Toto. Banda in for Marceline Mlilo and Morestuff Ncube nine minutes left for the coalminers to try and seize the initiative against 10 men Chiefs

Dying moments as Chipangano camp in Chiefs half forcing three consecutive corner kicks with hope for a productive outcome...it comes to nought as Lukas Sibanda is given a yellow card for trying a ' Diego Maradona hand of God " from the third corner kick 😀

Full-time at Chiefs Village Bulawayo Chiefs 1 Hwange 1 An evenly contested epic duel between the two giants in the league which ended in a share of the spoils . We take the point on the road as the race continues and intensifies.