Chipolopolo coach Herve Renard has expressed dissatisfaction with Zambia’s 1-nil victory over Uganda in Saturday’s Africa Cup qualifier at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola.
Zambia struggled to beat The Cranes and needed a 21st minute lone goal from skipper Christopher Katongo to emerge winners.
Renard said the African Champions were not efficient on Saturday.
” I will be a liar if I tell you I am very happy with the result, I am not. But football is like this we have to be strong and we will be strong in Kampala. We have to be strong and well organised,” he said.
Renard however remained confident that Zambia will qualify for next year’s AFCON to be staged in South Africa.
“I have a target to take Zambia one more time to the Africa Cup, especially in South Africa. Today we didn’t conceide a goal, I think this is a very positive thing.
Return leg is in Kampala on 13 October.
Uganda coach Bobby Williamson said he was proud of his side.
“You are never happy when you lose a game.”
DON’T WORRY RENARD, 1-0 IS BETTER THAN 2-1 OR 3-2. ATLEAST WE DID NOT CONCEDE A GOAL. THIS IS NOT A DISASTER ! GO CHIPOLOPOLO !!! PLAYING AT HOME GIVES PLAYERS ALOT OF PRESSURE NORMALLY. BOLA YALYAFYA !
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Don’t worry couch! There are no easy games anymore! The cranes did nothing but defend. In Kampala they’ll be forced to open up becoz they have to score. I’am confident we’ll beat them even in Kampala!!
Dream on
It won’t be as easy as u think in Kampala….our boys (Uganda Cranes) will be at their best wiz Massa – the net buster back upfront.
Renard must be aggressive in his press releases in the near future…’We are African Champions playing at home-we are going to play our best to score goals…our fans deserve it and at this point in time we have to exercise our given talent’ easy line like this…
Coach give confidence to the boys and let them come out blazing…All we had was Scotish thinking before the game…
The Zambian team plays better when they spend more time in camp together.
The longer the game prolongs the more desparate the Cranes will b and that would b the right time to strike…. we shuld absorb in the first half n give them a sucker punch in the 2nd half.
4-5 -1 formation for the first 45 mins.
4 -5-1 for the first game 60 minutes with 1-0 score line in favour of Zambia with Sakuwaha as lone strike,Kalaba and Katongo as attacking midfielders,defensive midfielders Sinkala,Chansa,Kasonde defence HH,Sunzu,Mbola and Nkausu.
let Mayuka and Jacob come on in the last 30 minutes but never remove chansa
Keyboard coach!
Still believe.No easy games.
I am praying Chris Katongo gets flu or rash before Uganda return game, so we can have some players who laughs to start game, such as Sakuwaha or Mulenga.
And HH should be replaced by Lawrence Phiri or that other boy Katebe. Hichani was almost fighting with Captain Mweene, that was not good exchange. All the same that kind of atmosphere is because of the soldier Katongo.
I hear when Katongo score,no other player score after him.
Ifi ma players fimo, nga chaingisha ninsh chaisalako. No one else scores!
What a warped way of thinking. Bola yalikosa fye. Katongo always to the rescue. Without him Zambia never wins a game.
Your kind of fallacy thinking may have only happened in schools football a long time ago and perharps at club level, but never at internatonal competitonz.
I just consulted my friend from Haiti, he will do his rituals over that Chris Katongo and Renard. Have you ever you people heard or watched Haiti play soccer?? Don’t ask me why, its because ama players balabalowa…. Ngatamwaufwapo a Frenchman ukumulowa, ask the Haitian. Zambia need to be scoring 4 & more goals in each match. People have been paying ama K500pin to watch the Katongo’s?? They paid to watch Jacob Mulenga & Sakuwaha,
You got a fun way of saying the truth…
I watched the game and it was not exciting at all, the guys were playing as if they were training. If that is the spirit they will carry when they go to Uganda, am afraid they will lose and they should expect to concede more goals from their opponents
. They failed to utilise home ground advantage.
Katongo bamupoke captain chikala ubuloshi bwacila.
Katongo should never play Zambia again, if he playing then he should not score but create balls for mayuka and Kalaba. I wanted to his bwanga in the last game I was disappointed the young boy Mayuka was substituted when chi Katongo na chiingisha. and his friends failed to score. He is very stupid. We will pray for you next you will fall sick and will not play in our games. Ukutumpa swine.
Small wonder we had riots in Chambeshi!Check simple facts before making your assertions.
Collins Mbesuma scored against Mozambique in the 2012 Afcon qualifiers after chris Katongo had scored.
Emmanuel Mayuka also scored the second goal against Comoros island after Katongo scoring earlier in the game.
At the just ended Afcon, Chamanga scored the third goal against Sudan after Chris Katongo had scored the second goal.
That’s a very unfair comment, Katongo is Zambian and he is a fantastic footballer why shouldn’t he play? Introducing young blood in the team is good but you need the experience as well. I don’t know what your relation is to Captain Katongo but please show respect for him, he has done a lot for our country.
Forget the unrealistic myths and just urge our boiz to be more assertive and play like champoinz by winning convincingly, especially at home, irrespective of who scorez.
GUYZ, dont think that our players wll just go and watch them score in kampala, they wil oso play to disapoint the cranes at home.wait.