George Lwandamina’s biggest day at the helm of the senior Zambia national team has arrived when his faces South Africa in a crucial CHAN qualifier at Nkoloma stadium on Saturday.
Trailing 1-0 from the first leg played on May 23 at Hunters Field outside Johannesburg, Zambia need to beat South Africa 2-0 to qualify to the CHAN finals in Sudan next year.
Lwandamina, in his second match is charge,is playing his cards close to his chest and by going to press his final 18 remains a mystery.
He will be banking on Zambia’s good home record of not having lost a CHAN match in three games since last year in the race qualifying to the inaugural CHAN event staged in Cote d’Ivoire.
Lwandamina will be banking on the same spirit this weekend with his attack certain to be led by Makundika Sakala who scored the winner for Zambia on Wednesday in a friendly mach against Angola in Lusaka.
Luka Lungu should start in midfield while Dennis Banda, plus the Zanaco trio of Charles Siyingwa, Thomas Nyirenda and Eugene Shamakamba expected to man the defence.
Meanwhile, South Africa coach Simon Ngomane has said playing Zambia at home or away is never easy.
Ngomane will be banking on attacking midfielder Lefa Tsutsulupa to continue with his lucky streak against Zambia against whom he has scored two goals in as many matches played against them.
No comment but we will wait and see, may be we will be lucky.
A coach is as good as the players he gets. Go Zambia!!! Go Lwandamina!!!
Zambia is a great team with alot of Quality Go zambia and Get them boys theres no way South Africa will survive here.We will give you our Support.Man to Man we are a better side.So go Guys and Get them.
Sorry ba Zambia..you are out! Herve Renard is smiling over his result with Angola
how do you know if zambia has lost a game..check out the news..no one reports on the results