Final: Zambia 0-2 Algeria
Zambia 0-2 Algeria
21′ Madjid Bougherra
66′ Rafik Saifi
More updates to follow…
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Venue: Konkola Stadium, Chililabombwe.
Date: June 20, 2009.
Kickoff: 14:00 CAT
Zambia takes the ‘Greens’ of Algeria this afternoon in a 2010 World Cup qualifiers. The Zamfoot Crew will give a live updates at the match unfolds at ‘Pa Bwendo’ as the locals call Konkola Stadium.Click to watch the game live
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Zambia line up & Formation:
__________Mweene_________
Muzo______Nyambe_____Dennis______Mbola
__________Francis Kasonde________
Felix________________Kaka-Balika
Jacob__________Singuluma_______Chris
Subs: Kakonje, Hichani, Njobvu, Fwayo, Mayuka, Chivuta, Sakuwaha
Algeria Line up & Formation
—————Gaouuaoui—-
Halliche Bougherra Antar Yahia Belhaji
Mansouri Lemouchi Karim Ziani Matmour
———-Ghezzal Djebbour——–
ENJOY the Match!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2010 here we will come!!! Kenoko yaluna!!! Ni tau yatu!!!!………………..Wapiya Ba Zed Baisa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To the who?
@Whisper
I agree with most of what you say though I think kalaba is by far our best player. Feligol was better than the Rwanda game but not better than Kalaba. I would have loved for him to have been available to feed into Jacob whenever he held off a long ball. Kalaba was passing and going forward as well. The best pass from Feligol was the chance Jacob fluffed past the upright in the second half. But having said that, thae lad hasn’t seen enough game time so it is understandable. I agree with your comments on Chris. I mentioned it when he moved that he was making a mistake and I think it shows-the guy is out of sorts
@FIFA
Fifa, can you please explain just what the coach was supposed to do or “invent” as you put it. Please be objective in your criticism because this game was lost not by the coach but by the players and the strikers were the main culprits. Between Jacob Mulenga and Singuluma, Zambia had enough chances to win the game!
How was second goal preventable?
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@BuzzEd
We lost the game tactically not by inferiority and not on the field of play.The players did everything they cud.the coach must have known that the Algerians will sit back ,let us do the attacking and catch us on counter and that they achieved.If 14 minutes would have been added the result would have been a 6 0. The Algerians prepared well for this match.They started first by coming to see the stadium and and the hotels
@DaMwiinger
it was tactical ma brother
BUT CUMING TO THINK OF IT, THE ALGERIANS ARE USING THE STRATEGY OF USING THEIR GOOD ATTACKERS TO THE MAX BECAUSE EVEN WITH EGYPT, EGYPT WAS THE BETTER PLAYER TO BE HONEST BUT THE ALGERIANS STILL GOT THEIR SCORES. THEIR COACH IS WORKING WITH WHAT THEY HAVE.
How do you mean boss?
Have you watched the game Rwanda-Algeria ? The Algerians missed then zillions of occasions. Each game has its own flow.
@DaMwiinger
i am ready to call u n explain my position.creating chances is a simple thing but the difficult thing is to convert dem and this has been our problem since Brouwer Jan(I cant score from the bench).Hence there is a difference in kicking the ball and playing soccer.Zambians took the ball to areas they cudnt shoot from or areas which were packed by the algerians.
@DaMwiinger
2 Algerians versus 3 Zambian defenders??? Slow defensive transition. Look at the goal again. Mbola had Rafik but i guess was afraid of fouling him. No one even slid in to stop the pass. Ground pass and they were all on there feet. What? Perfect pass, perfect counter attack. Zambia was caught sleeping.
The Algerians only started defending after they scored. At the start of the second half, they had opened up. But even with them defending, we created enough on the field of play to score but we didn’t, what did you expect the coach to do?
@DaMwiinger
cousin just look at the goals Alge boyz scored.you dont pack all the players up front to get a goal.
The reality has dawned on Zambia. We dont have cutting egding players that can play at the World Cup. Algeria or Egypt deserve to go to the world cup
I strongly agree. Its like the pitch shrunk. Its called staying behind the ball. Something Zambia lacked.
You are right, perfect counter, how do you prevent that? The nature of a counter is to catch your opponent napping, you basically start running before they do which gives you momentum. The guy passed the ball just early enough before the defenders could adjust to slide for it-it was a perfect counter to echo your sentiments. We would have done well to prevent the goal but I don’t think it’s fair to say it was preventable
THAT’ WEN THE COACH MODIFIED HIS STRATEGY MAYBE, BECOZ EGYPT PAYED A BETTER GAME BT THEY LOST ALGERIA CARRIED THE DAY SAME THING. N WITH RWANDA I PERSONALLY THINK THEY PLAY A GOOD DEFENSIVE GAME AND OVERALL POSSIBLY HAVE THE BEST DEFENSE OF THE GROUP BECAUSE ALGERIA DID NT FLUFF UP AS MUCH AS ZAMBIA DID TODAY
@DaMwiinger
Cousin I look at soccer as a system that is input,proccesor and output.Specify pls coz a chance can either be good one or bad one .You are merely talking of chances,personally i am now comfused.
Cousy, we had at least two clear headers, a one-on-one chance and another you can call one on one as well (Jacob Mulenga’s second half chance). You seem to be agreeing with me that there was nothing the coach could have done because he was not on the field of play to score. There was creativity but we didn’t utilise it-that to me is a scoring problem not a creativity or tactical one
@DaMwiinger
scoring is the most difficult thing or creating open cut chances or clear cut chances .we even allowed silly goals.We lost tactically and our system of didnt meet the demands of modern day soccer or the 21 centuary.WE LOST TACTICALLY AND THE BOYZ WERE GOOD
See my previous post plus also think of how many corners we created and free kicks in dngerous areas all of which only one created a genuine threat at goal
I would agree with you that the first goal was a silly one but the second was a typical footballing goal-one team’s chance cleared off the line and 15 seconds later they concede one. On tactics, what tactics would you have preferred?
@DaMwiinger
Lets be honest Algeria didnt play soccer in Zambia,its just that we gave away silly goals (tactical).We outplayed them but with no purpose
I think we lost it because we didn’t utilise our chances. We could have scored at least four but we didn’t-scoring problem for me
@FIFA
first of all you and me know that we have have failed to score than one goal at home and secondly we know that the Algerians werent going to play an attacking game,that they said.Zambia should just have played Kenya in that friendly instead of playing that team they played from then they cud have picked better tactics.Yes after scoring 9 goals ,they got the mathematics wrong from there.
@DaMwiinger
first of all you and me know that we have have failed to score than one goal at home and secondly we know that the Algerians werent going to play an attacking game,that they said.Zambia should just have played Kenya in that friendly instead of playing that team they played from then they cud have picked better tactics.Yes after scoring 9 goals ,they got the mathematics wrong from there.
Like I said its spilt milk. The goal was definitely stoppable so was the first goal, a defensive error. We paid for our mistakes. Thats big stage football. I still believe Algeria can be beaten at home.
We have a good coach, the defense was good so was the midfield. How do you expect to win when you cant even score when the goal keeper is beaten? The defense was excellent, and for those crying for mbesuma why didnt you defend him when he got dropped? I know chris is the captain, but his been underperforming so why start him? felix, kalaba, and joseph musonda played pretty good. I blame the strikers on this one they failed to deliver, the second goal was a counter when tembo failed to finish the easiest chance of the game. I think the guy who missed a penalty looks much better than the guys that miss when the goal keeper is beaten.
@DaMwiinger
nice posting but the word can be replaced by reasoning and not regret
This is a great point FIFA. In as much as we played the better and more attacking soccer, we lacked creativity. Another thing I don’t understand is why we did not use the wings. Aside from the fullbacks and Mbola did not have an exceptional game, I don’t understand why we were continually trying to go over the top even before the game got out of hand. I think Muzo was our main threat on the wings, but I think these exposed us defensively. Algeria mostly came forward on counter attacks and I thought defensively we were very poor when it came to recovering and find the attackers.
We did not play this game to defend, so there’s no way you would blame the defense for allowing two goals when We could have scored atleast 9 goals. They caught us on the counter because We were playing an open game. The idea was to score as many goals as We could.
@DaMwiinger
nice posting but the word can be replaced by reasoning and not regret
@Gametime12
nice posting but word spoils the posting becoz the word itself………… belongs to the unreal past
That team didnt beat us but we let them win the game.
my CONCLUSION IS THAT THE BOYS FEAR PLAYING HOME BECOZ SERIOUSLY LOOKING INTO THE CROWD DON’T GIVE NO MORALE I TELL U I HAD SECRETLY WISHED THAT FIFA WUD DECLARE CHILIES UNFIT SO WE CUD PLAY OUTSIDE ZAMBIA, THE ATMOSPHERE IS NOT CONDUICIVE, BOYS PLAY WITH FEAR OF DISSAPOINTING, NOTE:FEARE UMWENSO HOW CAN U PLAY GOOD FOOTBALL WHEN U R SHIVERING THRU N THRU ZAMBIANS WE HAVE TO CHANGE OUR WAYS KK11 WON’T COME BACK SO JUST SUPPPORT TILL THE END
Hey guys you are saying that algeria won both games-egypt and zambia- by chance and their team is weak, just explain me how they won their games with large score.For me they are one of the best team in africa and u ll see guys what they are going to do in the future. don’t forget that all their players are playing in the greatest teams in europe.
GOOD LUCK FOR ZAMBIA
@kanal
Thanx.Zambia is a weak team as of today and yesterday, we cant score more than one goal in a match but today the trend has changed we cant even score in a match.
Continue building the team.And those who are earning some income, you must support small academies. Boys train with their own kit Lol. Our future team should have academy experience, footballers like Chris should ti.
@Baba
People working in Faz shouldnt be getting allowances .Anyone going to Faz should have a stable income and not milk Faz.let people be there for the love of the game n patriotism.how can a team camp in a foreign country when playing at home?.I am sure Zambians today felt they were the away team.we refused a friendly with Kenya , i am am beginning to smell some shit here.some Newspaper actually reported that some Faz official tried to steal money , what country have we become?
Hanif can change our soccer.Forget abt Kalu, for all the goals he scored for Zambia he was paid money .How on earth ill our team be camping in a foreign country wen we are playing at home? how abt our failure to play Kenya in a friendly? and how about Newspaper articles reporting that Some FAZ official was trying to steal some public funds?.Kalu must go as he is not a qualified admnistrator
congratulation algeria you have to give them all the credit ,they denfended extreamly well and did not panic so pls all you haters out there give us some respect we are going to the world cup even if you dont like it peace
@ramy maybe you are right!
Continue building the team.And those who are earning some income, you must support small academies. Boys train using their own k. Our future team should have academy experience, footballers like Chris should ti.
Lets stop dreaming and face reality-we have no formidable team to take us to Joberg next year.As long as your toothless fox continues playing the likes of Kasonde, Singu. etc then you might as well forget the Africa Cup in Angola. Fox and the entire FAZ should swallow their pride and call on the services of Sinkala, Sichone, Chansa and Mbesuma. And what about the Power Dynamos boy who came out as footballer of the year last year why is he not giving him a chance-why is he so much in love with that Singu boy doing very little on the pitch?. As i stated ealier on when the coach dropped Mbesuma, it was a big mistake as Mbesuma is a very intelligent player in the D zone and some of those chances the likes of Singu. were blowing would have been goals had Mbesuma not been dropped. I also suspect Chansa is well but because of the way he was treated by Fox last time he was with team-being dropped at the eleven hour after travelling all the way from Europe must have annoyed him. And the defence, my God-we have always had good players at the back,whats going on pa Z?
Zambia played a good game and possession most of the game. Algeria scored twice on the few opportunities it had. It is true that we did not come out and play when we scored the goal(s) but what team would when you are winning on foreign land. Our goalkeeper played really well and even when he was beaten there was defender on the line to stop the ball from crossing the line and then we scored on the counter. Had Zambia scored that goal the game would have been different. The opportunities were there but the finish wasn’t. I am just happy we won because we have not won away since 2003. It is a new Algerian team. See you in Algiers or Blida in September.
poor Chamz what are you saying”Remember we have dopped 3 points at home, meaning we have to win in Algeria and Rwanda and beat Egpty.”
when you comback in algeria, you will reconize anothers things about our team, please wake up your dream and it’s time to think if you will can go to Angola.
We have to beat Algeria in their backward. That is how it is in football. We lost but we have not lost it all. HR play players who are plying at their clubs. Sinkala, Isaac, Chansa, Clifford Mulenga, HH, Chintu in chapwa
The world cup is for the best teams and that is the truth
I hear u mwe
That is what has to be done under these circumstances. It is difficult to beat Algeria at home but not impossible. They may not have been beaten at their home ground in a long time but we can still change that. Our players need to be psyched up into seeing that this is possible. Punch for punch, in an open game and on A GOOD PITCH, it would be a 50 50 affair. We have to inculcate this belief that it can be done !