Zesco United say their experience paid off in Wednesday’s Ndola derby 2-0 home victory over Buildcon at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium.
It was the first time that Zesco came face-to-face with their ex coach Tenant Chembo since he left the defending champions in early April to swap dressing rooms at Levy Stadium.
“It was a tough game. Buildcon played well but we just used our experience. We needed these three points because local derbies are always difficult games,” Zesco’s assistant coach Alfred Lupiya said.
“In my preamble I said that Tenant Chembo came from Zesco, so it wasn’t going to be easy. He knows what we can do and we also know what we can do.”
The two sides went into the break deadlocked at 0-0.
But as the hour approached ,Zesco took charge and scored through Jesse Were and Lazarus Kambole in the 57th and 84th minutes respectively to extend the defending champions unbeaten run to twelve successive games-ten of those matches are victories.
Meanwhile, Chembo is not amused by the result.
“We sat back in the last 20 minutes of the second half and we gave them too much respect,” Chembo said.
“In the future we have to compete; we have to work on the mentality and the attitude. You need to have big match temperament when playing such games.”
Zesco have now opened an eight point lead on 54 points while Buildcon are 11th on 31 points with sixteen matches left to play.
