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Zambia 1 – 1 Gabon (As it happened)

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Zambia host Gabon in an international friendly at Heroes Stadium in Lusaka.

Over the weekend, Gabon thrashed Sudan 4-0 while Zambia beat Kenya 2-1 in the 2017 African Cup of Nations qualifiers.

Zambia will face Sudan in November in a World Cup qualifier for Russia 2018.

Zambia XI: Mweene – Chepeshi, Sunzu, Katebe, M’Kandawire – Sinkala, Chirwa- Chisamba, Mbesuma, Kalaba – Kalengo

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  3. But pa Zambia mwandini. Power has been cut. This is very embarrassing to Zambia as a country. Surely just when the match is about to start and then ZESCO takes away power.

  7. Zesco was forewarned by Faz to put up a standby gen set but kuzimvela!

    Too pompous!

    Its high time they realised that Zesco can only be respected as a big company if they plan ahead. Why are they always reactive?

  11. This is pathetic to say the least. They new there would be a match at 6pm. Instead of preparing in advance. You can’t develop like that.

  15. Why not play the game in the afternoon if you are not sure of your capacity to play the game at night! PF musebanya weka weka! The country has gone to the dogs! And then some idi0t somewhere says ‘ifintu ni Lungu’.

    • Chi bitter UPND cadre. to hell with you. go and express your frustrations of losing the elections ku Zambia watchdog. this is a football forum. chimbwi iwe

      • I have always respected your posts and yes the fellow was wrong being political on this forum BUT the way YOU have argued this is WRONG…You can’t call people chimbwi or chi…it reflects badly on your spirit…again I will say this, your posts are always spot on!

        • Are you serious, prince? Paradox has been the most divisive individual in this forum. He is very disgusting in his postings. People like Positive Thinking and Dr. ROK are people worthy of emulation, NOT PARADOX. His language is always offensive.

  17. Gabonese are tired but we cant score!

    Let us naturalize some Ghana boys to play for our midfield. Where is that new constitution with duo citizenship?

  33. @health way! Uli cikopo nga wiso wakufyala! Did I mention your dull father you visionless PF cadre! Blind supporter over a pack of shake shake! Get a life you !mb!cile!

    • Apa pena walasa John I love this player him Mbesuma and Mayuka will make a good partnership with Mbesuma playing slightly in the deep.

  41. Kalengo would be more appreciated in Ghana than Zambia ,Zambians like to appreciate more skillful players even when they are technically poor. Kalengo is strong and technically sound and has been a consistent scorer for a long time .

  44. you pf caders grow up,everything is going poorly and you are busy saying ifintu ni lungu,fake.This is football site not politics. sorry I have just reacted to pf fan who is not a football fan.keep away from politics.

  45. According to transfer market Winston Kalengo is 30 years old, Why do some of you think this guy still has what it takes to make it in Europe ?

  48. paradox, uli shilu u not even suppose to be here.no wonder u are supporting blindly.you are destroying the country you people.Let’s concentrate on football.

  51. paradox, uli shilu u are not even suppose to be here.no wonder u are supporting blindly.you are destroying the country you people.Let’s concentrate on football.

    • ulichipuba. I started commenting way back since 2011. u totally ignore wat chi Anita said but u chose to attack me. think twice. u dont know me. u r jst a new comer to this web site

      • Being a veteran on this site does not give you credence to insult anybody. This is an African problem. Thinking that the older is wiser. Yes, maturity is acknowledged but some young ones may have better ideas. Stop the age long tradition of seeing things from a single perspective – associating knowledge/wisdom with age.

    • Zambia is playing pathetic football. Chipantepante, no ball control, losing possession unnecessarily, etc. Amateurish to say the least. Especially second half.

  56. How many min to go and how is the perfomance the team coz you are just talking about one player Kalengo how are others fareing?

  58. Our players are not convincing, especially the defence. Schoolboy defending by one left back Mkandawire led to the penalty. There is lots of work to do in this team.

  60. I have only watched the second half and it really leaves a lot of question marks. I am not impressed with those long balls flying over the midfield and leading to nothing. We have a long way to go

    Got to watch England Vs Switzerland

    Good nite ladies and gents

    • Ba Justice we just have to accept that we may never get to those days of extreme talented players back in the days and unfortunately just lower our standards. One would think Afcon 2012 triumph would spur us ahead awe sure. Also youth wise we are doing better than ever before looking at the way we keep churning out players but where we seem to be failing is final gelling into the National Team. I know Patsson Daka has been used and condemned to imminent obscurity, but I truly believe with proper club handling this boy is a Malaza in the making. I know my pal Chairmanizo has a programme for the boy and just hoping he doesn’t go to waste at power as he needs to be regularly playing to retain his predatory instincts he’s always had

      • I hear you my man, it is true we may never get back to those days. It is a pity for us fans/supporters because we really deserve better

  61. THE CHIOS SHOULD HAVE SCORED MORE THAN ONE GOAL..

    ITS A PITY AT HOME DRAW..ANYWAY, MBESUMA HAVE BROUGHT A NEW
    STRENGH TO THE CHIPOS..

  62. no other players where ‘available’ after the first team played. we need game-changing subs my fellow chicken..no wonder you are a fake one.

    • Nathan Sinkala, not taking anything from him, truth be told his standards have fallen. He was at Grasshoppers in Switzerland and did not make the grade, and this in my opinion has affected him. How else can one explain his deep in form and substitute role at Mazembe. As vice captain he has to be regular at his club, as that is the way you lead by example

  64. @health way! You sound like you have just gone to lusaka from the rural and you are very excited! Travel you PF cadre and realise that lusaka is just another dirt place! From your talk am able tell that you are not my kind! Am exposed, world over and you can’t change that simple PF cadre!

  67. Chicken has been exposed by a more better side. Our players are average and some of them below average. A lot of the senior players (from 2012 winning squad) have lost form. Kalaba, Chisamba, Sinkala, Sunzu. The young ones are not convincing. Only Mbesuma seems to bring life in this team and Kalengo of-course. There is a lot of work to be done. Should we meet bigger nations like Algeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Egypt, etc, we will be exposed. We need to play more and more friendly games with such teams as Gabon and the like. Above all we need a better coach, not just expatriate coach, but a better coach. I am still not convinced with Chicken. Maybe he needs some time to build the team. Otherwise we have a long way to go.

  68. i don’t hurt this Jackson Mwanza but how can a stricker be running away for the ball? hiding in people, can’t even trap the ball? why does the chicken keep on shortlisting this fellow?

  70. Gentlemen lets leave out politics and talk football. We are all Chipolopolo fans here weather PF or UPND what brings us on this site is the game of football. Let us stick to that and avoid caderism here why embarrass yourselves?

  71. Continue extending the suffering of your relatives with your PF! Am non partisan but just a critical analyzer of developmental issues. I don’t know you but one thing I know is, am better off than you, in terms of everything.

  73. criticise like a learned & exposed person not the insults u post. look at how john said abt Pf, plain and sober. he is the one I can say that he is exposed all over the world

    • Do you remember how how you were critizing Ghana & Nigeria over Zambia FAZ’s incompetence in making travel arrangements? Indeed, your hatred for the West Africans is known. Mumbi, your comrade may be singing melodic tunes at your languishing other people. Birds of the same feathers.

  76. i do not foresee mbesuma and kalengo still doing well 2017.these are bubble gums players.age is no longer on their side.lets not be get carried away by their performance against useless teams

    • I agree with Mbesuma and Kalengo may not be there in the next two years, but the calibre of young players Chicken has brought to the squad are useless. I guess there are better players in the ZPL than these ones currently in this squad.

  77. Those two kids at the back lacked maturity. The left back has now been involved in two goals Zambia gas conceded. Lwandamina should serious consider having more than one option in a position. Because the subs were also flat apart from Lubambo. The young chaps must grow. I also don’t know why he started the same 11 when he should have given chance to more U23 players with Kalengo Mbesuma and Kalaba playing only one half as guides since they have to return to their paying jobs

  78. Our Football standard has really gone down!!i failed to believe i was watching a national team play at heroes today!!that was very poor football mostly in second half!!the boys were not serious.we dont have a coach to push those players like Herve Renard used to do!!with such a huge crowd at the president in attendance,one would expect those players to up their game,but amazingly that wasnt the case!!I WILL NEVER GO TO WATCH CHIPOLOPOLO GAME AGAIN TILL WE’VE A GOOD COACH AND HARD WORKING PLAYERS!!EVEN THE KENYA GAME WAS BAD TOO!!

  79. I guess after the game,most of players are busy drinking beer with prostitutes. thats all these players know betters!!if you go to their rooms at protea hotel-arcades,only a few are sleeping.majority are out clubbing,so how can they play good soccer?God help us!!

  82. Upnd are like battocks which are always behind and never be in front. Hungry Hyna will cry again come 2016. His cadres reason with their asses and not brains. How could a normal person blame ECL for power blackouts at the stadium? Even for their lazyness which results into poverty they blame one hard working man ECL.

      • Partners in crime. How can you separate football & politics? They are intertwined. A good government will aid the development of football. Do you know what happened to Nigeria when bad governance sunk the football nation to its lowest level? Poor infrastructure, unwanted/unwarranted interference from government, failure to provide the necessary impetus to the game will all affect football negatively. When the government has a hand in the selection of players, coaches etc as happens in Zambia, OR when the president of FAZ lives in a foreign land and remotely controls football affairs in Zambia, all these will impact on football. ALL THESE ARE PART OF POLITICS. YOU CANNOT THEREFORE DISENTANGLE POLITICS FROM FOOTBALL. They are intertwined, interwoven, intermingle, indeed they move pari pasu.
        Look at what happened to Ghana at the world cup. The government flying millions of dollars to Brazil. Is there a political connection? Where was the money initially? Why not pay the players by cheque which is safer? Because of bad governance, the money was flown which could have been lost if the plane had got missing in the ATlantic. BAD GOVERNANCE HAS AN EFFECT ON FOOTBALL. Don’t let us deceive ourselves. The two cannot be separated entirely,

  83. This game was played under difficult circumstances. Zambia had to travel back in a pace of one day and Gabonese arrived an hour before the match.

    It is good that we had the friendly match and our weaknesses were exposed and these are my observation;

    1)Zambia tend to lose concentration in the dying minutes
    2)Playing long balls does not work for Zambia. Infact, we have always known Zambia to play/string short passes and the ball always always played on the ground as opposed to being in the air. However, this has not been the case in the recent past.
    3) Passing the ball to a colleague without checking if there are really there.
    -Kalaba has been exceptional drawing defenders away but his finishing
    leaves much to be desired and at times he crosses the ball in the box without checking if there is any in the box. This is not to say his not effective.
    -Our right back position was exposed and this is were we conceded the penalty. Time for technical bench to analyse this critically.
    -Sinkala is no longer the same player he was 2 or 3 years ago. He is not in form and keeps losing the ball easily.
    -We need to seriously consider if Mweene should be first choice. He is always leaving his goal line chasing the ball that he does not even have contact with. Bigger teams will punish us.

    In short most of our players are out of form. Mbesuma and Kalengo combination seems lethal but we need to find another striker in the short term because the careers for the two is in the twilight.

    It is good that we had a friendly and we drew. Had we won we would have been carried away.

    Hope FAZ will arrange more friendlies as this helps us identify our weaknesses as well as our strength.

    • Point of correction, the penalty was conceded from the left back. The right back equally is a big problem. Also Zambia only plays well only in the first half; In the second half it’s disaster.
      Otherwise I agree with you on the rest of the points you’ve raised.

  84. Chepeshi made one interesting cross the one chipped with the inside of foot into a banana like shape – you don’t do that without special talent….signs of growing confidence, and he was able to overlap. There was unity in the team even after all the changes in the second half…i didn’t see finger pointing just positive rapport. Now, we wanted a win again…that’s where the anti-climax is. Please kindly build from this ba Zambia team, you made me proud! I want to put my trust in the managers of our game. All the best.

    • Chipped, wipped, curved[can you give the ball three dimensions – you can in the physics lab] with inside of foot at pace. Corner kicks and free kicks where not poorly taken except for the Kalaba one when he lacked confideence.

  85. Zambian cadres u don’t make much sense. let’s not bring politics in everything pls. footballing is not politics take it somewhere else. power outages at the stadium u blame it a non zesco or non electrical technician why?. let’s learn to respect each other pls.

    • KWAME IS A GHANAIAN AND STILL LIVING IN GHANA-

      ACCRA—AIRPOT RESEDENSIAL–

      PROFESSION > ACCOUNTANT IN A WELL NOTICED COMPANY.

      —-ME Y3 GHANA NII—-

    • Mumbi & paradox are birds of the same feather . They don’t want PF to share blame but they will blame others, even other West African countries like Nigeria & Ghana for the mishaps in ZAMBIAN football. Politics & football are intertwined. Good governance will help promote good football. Bad government in Nigeria brought football to its lowest level. Poor infrastructure, unwanted & unwarranted government interference all affect football negatively. WHO SAID FOOTBALL & Politics ard not interwoven? They are intertwined, interwoven, intermingled, they move pari pasu,.

    • Don’t you think we miss you on the Ghana site? Tell your compatriot, paradox that we have been able to silence you. Next time, you will behave like adults and not like kindergarten chaps.

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