Nkana’s 2014 CAF Confederation Cup group stage campaign hit a pothole in Cairo on Saturday night after losing 2-0 away to hosts Al Ahly.
Nkana held out against a relentless Al Ahly for the opening 45 minutes that ended scoreless.
The Zambian champions however, almost took a shock lead in the 29th minute when Evans Kangwa saw his seemingly obvious goal-bound effort miss the target after he earlier chipped the ball over Al Ahly and Egypt goalkeeper Sherif Ekramy.
Al Ahly had the ball in the back of the net in the 37th minute through Mohamed Gedo but his goal was cancelled for a push on Nkana goalkeeper Rabson Muchelenganga before sending the ball into the back of the net.
Nkana were then punished by Al Ahly for poor marking on set pieces with two second half goals before the hour mark.
Ahmed Gamal rose unchallenged in the 47th minute to head the ball past Muchelenganga and Gebo too from a similar situation in the 57th minute sealed the win for the eight-time African champions.
Nkana host Sewe on May 24 while Al Ahly travel to Tunisia to face Etoile du Sahel.
Meanwhile, Sewe and Etoile meet this Sunday on Abidjan in the two sides opening Group B tie.
The nightmare is in France where Zambia’s Herve lost at home. So painful especially that it was hero Nsunzu scoring own goal to take his team into final relegation. What a dark day for Zambia.
Herve is the HH of football…a shameless opportunist riding of the the success of of other people.
Herve never added any value to Zambian football but destroyed everything that Bonnet created just like HH has done to UPND
I care less if his team does not win a single game for the entire season
It was a practice match for the Egyptians. Cant tell the NKANA’S strategy in that game because no player had shown any character.
You are useless. Who said if two players are zambians then the whole team is zambian?
The Nkana attack was so feeble one wonders what our FAZ coaches are teaching young boys. No strikers in the country sure