Friday, May 15, 2026

U23 CAN: Zambia 1 – 2 Tunisia (As it happened)

Zambia Under-23 take on Tunisia with kickoff at 20:00 hours in Senegal.

Coach Fighton Simukonda has named a strong side as the Junior Chipolopolo seek Olympics qualifications for the first time in 27 years.

Zambia is in the same group with South Africa and host Senegal.

The other group has Mali, Nigeria, Egypt and Algeria.

The top three countries will qualify to the Rio Olympics in Brazil.

Zambia U23 v Tunisia: Nsabata (c) – Chepeshi, Kayawe, Sakala, M’kandawire -Sautu, Katema, J.Chirwa, Patrick Ngoma – Sate Sate, Conlyde Luchanga

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148 Comments

  1. Tunisia’s prowess is aerial balls,set pieces, wing play. They also play one twos when they approach the Zambia goalmouth.Zambia can win this game if they counter all these while imposing themselves well.

  2. Im impressed by Sautu wearing jersey 10. Good skills by the boy. He took on 3 Tunisians on the left and layed in a deft cross but no one in the middle.

  3. Zambia should step up and stop losing loose balls on 50 50 situations. Should Zambia take the ball to the Tinisians, we can slot in 1 or 2 goals. But why are all Zambian National teams playing chipante pante ? In this case knowing that they are shorter than Tuisians.

  4. When we were a goal down we dominated play. But we seem to have relaxed a bit. P.Ngoma was putting pressure on the tall Tunisian defenders.

  5. There is something special with the Tunisians. Unlike the Zambians they have this trait of trying to force matters when they are near the Zambia goal mouth. That is a plus and it can hurt Zambia in the end.

  6. Just seen Sate Sate goal during first half review.Great vision!That is what a player who applies his mind to the game can do.Let us now keep the focus for the second half.Even just a 2-1 victory will give us a good start to the tournament

  7. I said it and I am confirming, the U23 team selection was not done right. Moses Phiri and Charles Zulu wud have made a great difference. If we loose, it all out of our own doing. You can not win a match when you are failing to transition defensive midfield into attacking midfield.

  8. Tunisia putting these bunch of half baked, amateur team in their plc!!

    TUNISIA UNDER 23 RAPING ZAMBIA SENIOR NATIONAL TEAM HEEHEHE

  9. Gentlemen, we luck strength and tactic. Especialy tactic coz we cant capitalise on our opponents weaknesses. eg we should have been quick to get forward.

  10. Zambia failed to counter Tunisia’s prowess. Aerial andnwing dominance. Th e worst for Zambia is the perormace of the goalminder.The goals he conceded could have been avoided.

  11. More than half of these half baked team are in the snr chipolopolo and Tunisia dismantling them!!

    They only prepared for ghana heehehee

  12. Afcon … First round exit

    Under 20… First round exit

    Under 17… First round exit

    Now, olympic qualifers, FIRST ROUND EXIT

    WC…. NOT QUALIFIED… LOL

    HEEHEHEHE

  13. Unlucky, we were sucker punched. we were pushing at the end but put too much into getting the goal that we conceded. Unlucky. It is like the senior team at Afcon, we must be aware of the psychological strategy. Next Time.

  14. Zambian problem is simple, We lacked experienced players. after WE LOST Ngoma and Kampamba our system crumbled.We needed battled tested players like Mbola, Kangwa and Mukuka Mulenga. This game We just gave it away.We are on our way out.

  15. Our local coach luck tactical knowledge of the game. We may boast of individual talent but those to narture it are not there. South Africa my be any easy game but Senegal wont give us a chance. When was the last time went to a tornament and then progressed to the 2nd round without a loss in the 1st one?

  16. Our local coaches luck tactical knowledge of the game. We may boast of individual talent but those to narture it are not there. South Africa my be any easy game but Senegal wont give us a chance. When was the last time went to a tornament and then progressed to the 2nd round without a loss in the 1st one?

  17. They ll lose all their matches as south africa ll beat them and if course south africa is more talented than these half baked team who always boast bf eachh and every tourney but bashed and shown the exit in the first round

    Yall want to go to rio and DO WHAT KIIKKIIII

  18. Zambians whacked by Tunisia once more. I have mo hope in this team. The only team they will draw with is South Africa. Against Senegal expect a hiding. The display was poor.

  19. the two dwarfs always suspects,Patrick ngoma and sate sate have not under 23 bafyashi mo wonder ama injuries.Friday samu would have scored that free header,he is not national team material.over all Zambian players are not strong mentally they fear the skin ,and the coach is dull too.

  20. I’ ll never ever insult my zambia, dual national idiots can fry their heads. In one nation I was born in one nation I’ve grown in one nation I’ve Learned and one nation I’ll die , if any of the anti_ chipolopolo think there is not good enough current player what are you doing drinking instead of breading the best footballers you think we can have?

  21. The problem is Poor team selection,we have good under 23 players here. I wish bena situmbeko,Evans Kangwa,Mbola,Moses phiri,Charles Zulu,katebe,Cletus chama,ngwenya and Masiyaleti would have been in the team not those small boys we are imposing as defenders.we’ll continue suffering like this not until something is done at Faz. Kalu is not interested in qualifying to the Olympics but to sale those boys.

  22. Zambian players are good they need a good coach.. Poor team selection is the major problem .. Where obby chirwa, mbola, kangwa, zulu, Moses phiri, Spencer , ngarande , billy mutale, some of the boys are not both physically and mentally strong.. The back four is not strong.. In January they were rated as the worse defence at under 20 . This coach is very blind indeed .. The boys are down and out unless a miracle is going to happen.. I do not see them matching south Africa . If their under 5 against this weak defence expect disaster.. Tunisia and Senegal are thru..

  23. no concentration poor selection players they were looking heavy ad tired coaching last few minutes coach is suppose to advise players to concentrate he was their jst standing surly

  24. We didn’t play too badly. The team must learn to pace themselves. Who is this Idi al gaddafi on this site! Block this Boko Haram from here pliz!

  25. Maybe the botswana coach is right after all!!

    Zambia are minnows just like them and they struggled so much to pushed up their weight which breaks them down!!

    This is your 10 cent botswana coach hehehhee. Lol

    Kikiiiii

        • Meaning, if Ghana never qualified, then its childish for someone to rejoice when a team that qualified for the tournament fails to win its opening game. He is better of moaning of his teams failure to qualify. Shameful.

  26. well it’s an awful start.Even worse is that 2 of our key players, Ronald and Ngoma got injuries.One would hope their injuries are not too bad to miss remaining games.Another eye opener is that it seems our boys lack depth and mental strength.A 1-all would have been better.All the same, let the coaches encourage our boys not to lose hope,we need victories against S.A and Senegal if we are to qualify.

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