Zambia host Sudan on Sunday in Ndola looking to complete the job and advance to the final group qualifying stage of the Russia 2018 World Cup.
George Lwandamina’s side enjoys a 1-0 lead from the first leg match played on November 11 away in Karima.
Lwandamina has however warned that Sudan must be treated with extreme caution as both sides will be playing on a better surface after Zambia overcame a dusty patch at Karima Stadium to scrap a vital away victory by the lone goal.
“It wont be easy they are wounded and we have to approach it with the seriousness it deserves,” Lwandamian said.
Collins Mbesuma and Winston Kalengo are again expected to lead Zambia’s attack with the latter searching for his sixth goal for Zambia in 2015.
Kalengo found the target in the first leg last Wednesday while Mbesuma’s work-rate was the centerpiece of Zambia’s character on the night in Karima.
However, a better performance is expected from captain and midfielder Rainford Kalaba following a lackluster showing in the first leg before making way for Spencer Sautu in the 82nd minute.
Meanwhile, Sudan coach Hamdan Hamad remains hopeful they can turnaround the results despite the pressures of playing away.
“It will be very difficult but we will try to fight and we will try and tell our players to fight for the game because there is no other way we have lost and we have to fight hard. It is a very important game for us,” Hamad said.
Winner over both leg will advance to the group stage qualifiers where Africa’s five representatives at the 2018 finals in Moscow will be decided.
Sudan will definitely play an open attacking game in order to score. And this will open their midfield and defence giving room for Zambia to play counter-attacking football. Mind you Zambia is dangerous when it comes to counter attack, a kind of football we played when we won the 2012 Afcon. I see Zambia walloping Sudan by an avalanche of goals.
Keep on dreaming Zambia with your USELESS kwacha, poverty stricken country, full of petty issues, SUDAN WILL OVERCOME THE ka 1- 0 and advance to the next stage so that u concentrate on your Kwacha
ANYOKO You are a prophet of doom and I wish I had better words for you. Don’t wish for something you wouldn’t want happen to you. Your political fantasies should not drag you from reality. I will come to castigate you when Zambia wins.
I’m back to prove my point, Zambia has won. I will spare you the castigation this time around, you prophet of doom walloped in an utopia of political fantasies. Some things are a matter of national pride and transcend all manner of egos, including intoxicated political inclinations. Please always remember that even as as you continue to grow.
Wounded Sudan? Anyone who loses to Sudan at home should not be coaching Zambia
UNHEARD OF…. HW CAN YOU WISH A LOSS FOR YOUR COUNTRY… ALWAYS ON THE NEGATIVE WILL NOT HELP YOU TODAY OR IN FUTURE THE WAY IT HAD FAILED YOU IN THE PAST…. kumbele aChipolopolo you do the Southern part of Africa proud