Zanaco can smell their fifth league title and it will be stronger on Wednesday should they inflict damage on visiting City of Lusaka at Sunset Stadium in the two side penultimate league match of the season.
Should Zanaco win against City, whom they beat 2-1 in the first leg in June, they will need just a draw in their final match against Kabwe Warriors away on Sunday to end Zesco’s two-year uninterrupted reign as league champions.
League leaders Zanaco are level on 60 points with second placed Zesco who have already played their Week 29 match which they won 2-0 away to demoted Nakambala Leopards on Sunday.
And so with Zesco only able to amass 63 points on Sunday in their final game, it is advantage Zanaco as things stand.
Zanaco have been in inspired mode in their last three games in which they have recorded three-out-of-three victories including a pivotal 1-0 away win over Zesco on November 14 in Ndola.
Leading Zanaco’s recent revival after a seven-match winless streak going back to mid-August is the trio of winger Allan Mukuka plus strikers Makundika Sakala and Winston Kalengo.
Sakala and Kalengo’s prolific form has seen them score three and two goals respectively for Zanaco in the side’s recent three-match winning run.
The duo and Mukuka’s creativity have also helped ease Zanaco’s apprehensions in the absence of the side’s injured talismanic striker Patrick Kabamba who still leads the top scorer’s charts on 20 goals despite last seeing action in mid-August.
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I said ZANACO can’t fail to collect three out ot the available six points to wrap-up the league and it iz not possible for ZESCO to score 15 unanswered goalz, even if they played ZESCO Luapula. So, a victory for the bankerrz in todayz encounter just about confirmz them championz.
we just have to wait and see…………..Zesco has been performing well on continental level and am sure they will do better than zananco in the african champions league
to me zesco was lucky they never had tough opponents along the way thats why they couldnt qualify to the semi finals because at group stage there was some strong teams. anyway even if they become second they can still prove their worthy in the confederation cup hoping there will be no arab teams at early stages.
i believe by dis tm da game has started,gud pipo if posable updata me coz am 4zanaco
zanaco is down by one goal. ha this years titile wil go to the wire. anyway there has been some improvement , last year the league leaders only managed to collect 51 points. this season atleast both zanaco and zesco are on 60 points already
Wat’s the final rezult in the ZANACO game?
Zanaco 0 city 1 final result