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We were complacent-Lubambo

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Lubambo Musonda (r) standing over Atahir El El Babikir (15) of Sudan on November 15, 2015 ina 2018 world Cup qualifier at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola. Zambia won 2-0
Lubambo Musonda (r) standing over Atahir El El Babikir (15) of Sudan on November 15, 2015 ina 2018 world Cup qualifier at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola. Zambia won 2-0
Lubambo Musonda has admitted they were complacent at the 2015 CAF Under-23 Cup in Senegal.

Zambia made a poor showing in Senegal where they were eliminated from the tournament after losing all their preliminary round group matches with losses to Tunisia (2-1), South Africa (3-2) and hosts Senegal (2-0).

“We lacked concentration. We thought we had already won yet the game is played in 90 minutes,” Lubambo said.

“We learnt a lot from the three games that we should always put in our level best until the end of the 90 minutes.

“The way forward is to keep pushing until we get the results.”

The spotlight returns on most of the underachieving Under-23 players next month when they will be selected for the 2016 CAF African Nations Championship (CHAN) tournament in Rwanda.

CHAN is a second tier Africa Cup for home-based players.

Zambia are in Group D at the tournament that will run from January 16 to February 7 where they will face Mali, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Chipolopolo will kickoff their CHAN outing on January 19 in a derby clash against arch-rivals and perennial CHAN campaigners Zimbabwe.

Zambia will play Uganda in both sides penultimate Group D match on January 23 before taking on Mali four days later.

5 COMMENTS

  1. Most African teams have non Zambians of being complacent, and they capitalise on that. This problem is at all levels of our nations teams even withs other sports discplines. We are not fighters nowonder pipo say 2012 was a fluk.

  2. Then why give you another chance to go to a tournament if you have that attitude? They come back from the tournament with those poor results, take them straight to the guard room at ALakani Barrack for punishment. This was done by Cameroon for a poor performance at a tournament. My piece advise!

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