George Lwandamina (Zambia coach)
In Kenya if you saw the strategy employed by our opponents, they used long balls and my b0ys retreated because they did not to leave any spaces behind. The sealed all spaces to avoid giving chances to our opponents and that worked in our favour.
Gabon gave us a good run but we were resolute in defence; we denied them chances but they managed to score their goal through a penalty. We could have done better but we started with the same players who played in Nairobi.
Playing two games in forty eight hours was not easy for them and I had to make several changes in the second half to avoid muscle cramps.
I think the young boys did very well. They are trying very hard to come into the fold. They are young and strong and we need to praise them for their contribution. They have the potential and that is what is very important.
Stephane Boungouedza (Gabon Coach)
Zambia is a very good team but we noticed that their central defenders were slow so we concentrated our play on the wings where we have quick players. That strategy worked well for us because it resulted in us winning a penalty.
Our initial strategy was to defend but we also observed that our opponent’s finishing was very poor despite their excellent display in build up. We also took advantage of that.
Yes but in both matches you went to bed in the second half, why coach??
Zamfoot. there is nothing new abt this story. we have already read abt war chicken & the Gabon coach said in previous blogs,
Boooom there you go, countries will come and take us down as soon as they have seen one or two things.
Our defence must be complete and not half baked as it is now….
Stephane Boungouedza (Gabon Coach)
“Zambia is a very good team but we noticed that their central defenders were slow so we concentrated our play on the wings where we have quick players. That strategy worked well for us because it resulted in us winning a penalty. Our initial strategy was to defend but we also observed that our opponent’s finishing was very poor despite their excellent display in build up. We also took advantage of that.”
this comments are like from grade one pupil so what.gabon coach said the zambian center back was slow and we concentrated our on wings. the center back is not slow they read the game very well. sunzu and katebe they are technically good. the boys were extremely tired not slow.stephane do not tell us nonsense about that defense you failed to read you game properly
these comments are like from grade one pupil so what.gabon coach said the zambian center back was slow and we concentrated our on wings. the center back is not slow they read the game very well. sunzu and katebe they are technically good. the boys were extremely tired not slow.stephane do not tell us nonsense about that defense you failed to read you game properly
Its clear Lwandamina is another clueless cooach..
True that.
yes,the boys got tired.we need experience in defence,not small boys.if you see that goal scored by olunga it was because of inexperienced from small boys.we need two more experienced defenders to help sunzu&katebe.
The problem with our coaches is lack of technical know-how. The Gabonese coach has nothing to lose or gain by the comments he made. All Lwandamina has to respond is to view video footage of the last two games and thank his colleague for the observations. On the other hand if the so called young players are an imposition on the team, he is singing his masters’ voice; justifying wat is wrong in order to stay on the bright side of the appointing authority! The fact that the front line was blunt on the day is an indisputable fact, what with Kalaba’s wild shorts in the D zone! Mbesuma and Kalengo were above average over the two games. That does not translate that our striking problems are over noooo! After all our other options have never been given a fair chance to showcase their current potential. Boys such as Kola, Ng’onga,Obrey Chirwa, Kangwa and new kid in town Walter.
All Lwandamina has to respond is to view video footage of the last two games and thank his colleague for the observations. On the other hand if the so called young players are an imposition on the team, he is singing his masters’ voice; justifying wat is wrong in order to stay on the bright side of the appointing authority! The fact that the front line was blunt on the day is an indisputable fact, what with Kalaba’s wild shorts in the D zone! Mbesuma and Kalengo were above average over the two games. That does not translate that our striking problems are over noooo! After all our other options have never been given a fair chance to showcase their current potential. Boys such as Kola, Ng’onga,Obrey Chirwa, Kangwa and new kid in town Walter. If the Gabon guy was aware of this his comments wud have been different. Factully, the Gabonese was commenting from a position of innocence and ignorance! Of course he is unaware of the politics that surround the selection of players to the Chipos training camp! AN expatriate wudnt tolerate such childish nonsense by Kalu and his band of bootlickers
unfortunately we don’t have any better defenders that those ones.
sunzu and katebe can form a formidable partnership with time.our wing back they need time.its good to give chance to young stars and get the needed results.the good thing about these young stars they graduated from the under 20 and they are current under 23 players.now they are with senior team.if they keep on getting expose they will be house names in African football.
On a lighter note, I think I have a solution to more goals being scored, we must go back to the rules which we were applying during our time of playing ichimpombwa. We never used to play 90 minutes but goals would determine what time the game would end. It will be something like 5 change goal 10 finish. If u don’t score 5 goals no half time. We would play one game for two days until 10 goals are scored. BOMA IYANGANEPO APA.