Zesco United coach George Lwandamina admits they gifted Etoile du Sahel some soft goals in Wednesday’s 2018 CAF Champions League defeat away in Sousse.
The Tunisian side beat Zesco 2-1 to send the visitors to their first Group D loss after two games played at this stage.
“They are not a strong side. We just gave them too much ball possession,” Lwandamina said.
“Each time we won possession, we gave it away, and otherwise they were not that difficult to beat.
“At the start of the second half, we made what I can describe as basic errors which cost us.
“It wasn’t all that difficult that we deserved to lose.”
Lwandamina’s defenders were punished for some poor marking when Alaya Brigui put Etoile ahead in the 46th minute, and ten minutes later, Amr Marei turned the ball on the far post a cross from Alkhali Bangoura after another basic error by the Zesco backline.
Striker Lazarus Kambole then tapped-in Zesco’s consolation goal in stoppage time.
Etoile top Group D tied on 4 points with 2nd placed Mbabane Swallows of Swaziland.
Zesco are 3rd with 1 point level with last placed Agosto whom they host on July 17 in Ndola.
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Those we’re same excuses we used to hear from Tanzania.
Zesco how do you lose kwitole sure? Now that you know where you went wrong, that were to start improving in the second leg.
Tenant Chembo leaves and the losses start.
be careful with mbabane swallows aka swaziland ukuli chi mansion or is it manson, these EOLE PEOPLE WILL BE BEATEN in zed JUST FIND A WAY TO BRIDE INYATSI TO BEAT SWAZILAND
This coach is amazing. “Soft goals “those were hard earned goals. We always fail to contain wing play. Swallows scored from wing .come second leg Etoile will score from wing play. Then you keep on telling us that we learnt
@nostradamus you ‘re spot on. It’s the duty of the coach to prepare his back line never to concede via soft goals or school boys error . It’s better you remain mute next time
Coach Lwandamina you have a lot to do before we do the final rounds,jst prepare the boys to pick the three points when we play an Angolan club,go zesco go
That’s what happens when you fix something that “isn’t broken!”
With all due respect to coach George Lwandamina, but he has reverted to the players that he left behind 2 to 3 seasons ago, instead of building on the fresh blood that Chembo injected into the team, Winston Kalengo & Jackson Mwanza are NOT the players of 2015, a poor administrative move by Zesco Utd…
@jeke kkkkkkkkkk fixing something that isn’t broken you make my day. By the way where is that guy who scored beautiful set pieces.hope he was not sold or is it that he has lost form
Always learning! 0000
Lwandamina is now out of use just like NYIRENDA too slow in responding to what is happening on the field and if action is done it does not solve the problems on the ground.
This shows they do not study the opponent and take weaknesses and strength of the other side. Eg Tunisia team showed they found lef5 back weak and used to score two goals the coa h was seeing this and he was sitted watching football no action while Tunisia coach was reading the game and continued instructing players. This was chembo s strength and will prove good at his team.