Benjani is top scorer

BY FARAI MUYAMBO
ZIMBABWE senior national soccer team captain Benjani Mwaruwari is only six goals shy of his target this season after scoring his eighth league goal in the English premiership as he helped his team Portsmouth to a storming 4-1 win away to Newcastle on Saturday.

Mwaruwari (29) set a 15-goal target at the start of the season,  an ambitious goal for someone who scored only six goals last season and one goal the previous season. He arrived at Pompy during the last quarter of the season.

Benjani is still the leading goal scorer, two ahead of Bolton’s Nicholas Anelka and Arsenal’s Emmanuel Adebayor and Francesco Fabregas.

This week Mwaruwari said: “I was not expecting to be the Premier League’s top scorer. My target was 15 in all competitions, so I have seven to go.”

“Everyone is looking at us as a strong team. We want to finish in the top six if we can. But we need to keep on fighting.”

Post published in: Zimbabwe Sports News

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