Milutin Sredojevic says his Chipolopolo team was second-best against CHAN defending champions Morocco in Sunday’s humbling 3-1 quarterfinal loss in Douala.
Ten-man Chipolopolo, who had defender Zachariah Chilongoshi sent-off inside the opening 20 minutes of the first half with Morocco leading 2-0, made a third successive CHAN quarterfinal exit on January 31 to suffer their worst loss in the competition to date.
“You know that we have played against a team from a country where two teams Wydad and Raja Casablanca were in the semifinals of the CAF Champions League and whatsoever, this is a pure reflection of their football,” Micho said.
“It is means that we need to work hard and rise above and be in the group stages of the Champions League and then on the Chan to expect beyond quarterfinal.
“On the other side I really wanted to go all the way but realistically speaking despite stretching all human and sport limits I need to be sincere and to accept despite players giving everything unfortunately we could not reach beyond this stage. This is the reality.”
With those Micho’s words, the defeat comes barely two months before Chipolopolo host Morocco’s neighbours and defending AFCON champions, Algeria, during the week of March 22 in a must-win penultimate Group H qualifier.
I like you micho but be serious
I beg to differ a bit with “Micho”. My view is that our strategic approach to the game was wrong. By the time we realized Morrocco were very fast on the wings and midfield we were already down two zero. It has now become a trend for Zambia to concede early failing to understand that many teams want to score early in order to unsettle their opponents. To say that our league is sub-standard compared to the Moroccan league may be true but not totally a contributing factor to the results last Sunday. When we won the AFCON in 2012 we were able to overcome the likes of Ghana, Senegal, Cote de’ voir and Libya with mostly locally home based players with only a few professionals. This was despite the fact that ours opponents had star studded sides featuring almost 90% professional players in…
In short we have no talent at home
r analysis is very correct
How can you be happy to be second best with other weak teams?It’s like coming second in
A class of dull students. Zambia
Was a power house in football. Let
Micho go through Zambian football History.