26/10/2025
The head-to-head record between FCB Nyasa Big Bullets and Mighty Wanderers tells its own story of dominance and defiance. Since 2015, nineteen encounters have yielded seven Bullets victories, two for Wanderers, and ten draws. The numbers suggest supremacy for the red half of Blantyre, yet the narrative is more nuanced.
No team has completed the double over the other since 2015, when Bullets swept both meetings. That decade-long drought speaks to the competitive balance that has defined this rivalry in recent years—neither side able to establish sustained superiority within a single season.
The last time Wanderers completed a double over their neighbors? 2011. Fourteen years ago. Should they prevail on Sunday, they would end that barren spell and, more significantly, seize psychological supremacy at the season’s most critical juncture.
What elevates this derby beyond mere rivalry is the intellectual duel at its core. Mponda versus Mpinganjira. The rebuilder versus the custodian. The apostle of attack versus the guardian of defense.
This is not the football of highlights reels and viral moments. This is the football of championships—methodical, disciplined, forged in the understanding that titles are rarely won in attack but almost always secured in defense.
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