Ten man Power Dynamos beat Napsa Stars at Vodafone Woodlands Stadium in a lunch time kickoff, while Mufullira Wanderers snatched a point with a late equaliser to deny City of Lusaka a famous win.
On the Copperbelt, Zesco United beat Nakamba Leopards in Ndola while Nkana and Nchanga Rangers shared spoils in Kitwe.
In North Western Province, Red Arrows failed to hold on to their early lead to draw with Lumwana Radiants.
There’s jubilation in the border town of Nakonde after Real beat Forest Rangers.
And finally Green Buffaloes collected maximum points against Green Eagles
SATURDAY, 5 AUGUST 2017
Kabwe Warriors 0-0 Buildcon
Warriors goalkeeper William Chibale made two crucial saves to deny Buildcon danger man John Makwata.
Ugandan international winger Geofrey Sserunkuma missed a sitter.
Mukwata and Miheso impressed for Buildcon while Jacob Phiri and Paul Simpemba were equally good in the first half.
Buildcon are now 9th on 30 points but just 8 points behind leaders.
SUNDAY, 6 AUGUST 2017
Napsa Stars 2-3 Power Dynamos (Simon Nkhata 34′, Alex Mwamba 70′ pen | Alex Ng’onga 13′, Benson Sakala 44′, Godfrey Ngwenya 88′ pen)
It lived up to the billing of being the peak of the weekend.
Napsa Stars came from behind twice and could have taken lead had Mathews Maleka’s shot not hit the post only for the Kitwe giants to snatch a late win.
Alex Ng’onga continued his scoring spree with superb finish after he was set up by Luka Lungu. Mid season purchase from Lumwana Simon Nkhata showed why the pensioners lured to Lusaka was tap in.
Goalkeeper Philip Banda made a blunder after he failed to deal with a Lawrence Chungu and Benson Sakala capitalised on the mistake to restore the lead just before the break.
After the break, Napsa were denied a clear penalty after Govenda Simwala brought down Austin Banda. Twenty minutes later, Simwala repeated his action on Banda and the referee had no option but to give the penalty which was converted by Alex Mwamba.
Then the game became an end to end affair in a thrilling encounter. Simwala was sent off while Maleka fluffed from close range with a golden opportunity to make 3-2.
Despite being a man down, the Kitwe giants had a fare share of chances and it paid off after Ng’onga was elbowed by Mwamba.
Godfrey Ngwenya, then sent Banda into the wrong direction from the spot, as Dan Kabwe’s closed the gap to a point.
Lumwana Radiants 1- 1 Red Arrows (Josephat Kasusu 90′ | Charles Siyingwa 2′)
Stanley Nshimbi and Patrick Ngoma combined to set up veteran defender Charles Siyingwa who nodded home an early goal.
Former Kabwe Warriors man Josephat Kasusu equalised in injury time to deny Honour Janza’s men maximum points.
Nkana 1-1 Nchanga Rangers (Dieugo Apanane 60′ | Benson Nzuma 68′)
Benson Nzuma cancelled out Dieugo Apanane’s goal as the Chingola outfit stunned the Wusakile faithful with an impressive show at Nkana Stadium.
Zesco United 2-0 Nakambala Leopards (Jesse Were 14′ pen, Kondwani Mtonga 90′)
Despite playing for Zambia 24 hours earlier, Fackson Kapumbu, Kondwani Mtonga, Simon Silwimba and John Ching’andu, the quartet started for Zesco United.
The Ndola side played with swag and could have scored more than 5 goals as Dave Daka and Jesse Were were on song.
Zesco went top with 3 games in hand over Napsa Stars.
Real Nakonde 1-0 Forest Rangers (Juma Simbeye 55′)
Juma Simbeye’s second half strike earned Real Nakonde their second victory of the campaign after they stunned Perry Mutapa’s side.
Green Buffaloes 1-0 Konkola Blades (Friday Samu 5′)
Former Zambia Under-23 Friday Samu made sure Green Buffaloes stayed in contention of the league title.
Buffaloes are just 2 points off Zesco United.
City of Lusaka 2-2 Mufulira Wanderers (Nchimunya Masiwa 41′, Edward Tembo 47′ | Rahim Osumanu 45′, 71′)
Ghanian striker Rahim Osumanu scored a brace as Maite came from behind twice to earn a point against City of Lusaka at Woodlands Stadium.
Nchimunya Masiwa and Edward Tembo scored sublime goals which will be up for goal of the week contender.
MONDAY 7th AUGUST, 2017 – National Heroes Stadium, Lusaka
13:00 Zanaco vs Green Eagles
15:00 Lusaka Dynamos vs Nkwazi
I watched the Napsa vs Power game. i picked up something from that game,the elbow on Alex Ng’onga that led to the penalty derseves a three match ban because that was violent conduct, it was dangerous. I know we will be setting a precedence for ourselves regarding punishing players retrospectively because we don’t usually have footage of every bad incident in every match cause we don’t have the capacity but i think where we can like in this case where footage is available I propose that players be punished retrospectively because that was nasty
I totaly i agree with you. he costed napsa a point.