Zambia Police sponsored outfit High Flying Nkwazi edged Zesco United 1-0 in a rescheduled week 8 encounter played at Emboela Stadium on Wednesday.
This was the third loss for the defending Champions this season but Zesco United head coach George Lwandamina, however, believes that all hope is not lost. He feels his team only lost concentration to concede a goal but they played well overall.
“It was not that difficult, I know the Result will tell that it was difficult, we just lost concentration and we gave them a goal and we tried to come back but they were strong and everyone was behind the ball it seems that’s the football they will be playing against Zesco but the boys played,” he said.
Lwandamina who made changes to his team explained that he needed to give other players a little rest as they were exhausted.
“If you saw the composition of the team it was slightly different from the usual starters, it is in the same vain that we give others a little bit of rest more especially with the intensity of the game coupled with travel and they could show even in training that these people are tired,” he said.
“If you saw even in Adrian we tried to keep and Jesse just to inspire the other group, but the result which we are getting it’s just a phase am sure will come over it after we play to three-quarters of the game,” he added.
Despite losing back to back Coach Lwandamina is positive his side will bounce back because they have what it takes.
“These are Champions they have been in this situation before am sure they are trying, you could see that they want to get the best result out of this game But football being what it is we are still finding ourselves in the same predicament but they are not losing hope, so they will overcome it and that is what we work on,” he explained.
The Ndola based side are Fourth on the Log table with 31 points, their next game will be against Zanaco in a Super Sunday Action to be played at Sunset Stadium.
I DON’T CARE WHO WINS FAZ ELECTIONS IN MARCH, Sports minister
Sports minister Emanuel Mulenga says he does not care who will win the fourth coming FAZ elective general meeting in March.
Mulenga said his job as a minister is to work with whoever will be elected and see how things go, going forward.
“One thing you must understand is that all of us are just doing our jobs, that is, the role of government is to govern, to make sure things are done according to the law. They are going for elections in [March], me I don’t care who will win, me I will work with whoever is going to win after March but the most important thing is to make sure that the elections are free and fair,” he said.
“I can’t talk on the AGM because I have not studied their constitution. It’s very important that we follow their constitution so that we are not sided or accused of siding with anyone, so we will follow the constitution to the letter.”
Mulenga urged the football fraternity to avoid infighting because they are not the ones to be affected.
“The ones that are going to be affected it’s the players, so let them end, let them do a ceasefire on the wrangles they are have now and concentrate on developing football, that’s the mind all of us should have so that we return to the glory days that we had,” Mulenga said.
Asked why he was asking for a technical report now, Mulenga said FAZ needed to understand where they went wrong.
“Look, when you are doing a business and if there has been failure in one thing, you start from where you went wrong for you to understand. FAZ needs to understand where they went wrong, where did the coach went wrong,” he said. “Then you pick it from there. They are trying to pick a new coach, isn’t it so? Why have they decided to let go of a local coach? It’s because there is a problem, so these are things they need to say in the report; what challenges were they facing when they had a local coach and what do they want for local coaches to address? That’s the objective. So from the technical report they are going to talk about the challenges and they are going to agree on what they want the coach to address.”