ZANACO Football Club were today booted out of the MTN Africa Champions league by Tunisian football giants Esperance on 6-1 on goal aggregate. However, Green Buffaloes sailed through to the next round of the Confederation Cup after beating St. Pauloise of Reunion, 2-0. Esperance, who beat Zanaco 2-0 a fortnight ago, beat the home team 4-1 at Sunset before a capacity crowd. Zanaco who are also the 2006 KCM/FAZ Premier league champions were out played right from the start by the visitors who managed to score two goals in the first half. Esperance's deadly strikers Kasoloi Salam scored two goals in the first half while his teammates Latief Amin and Lackhan Charib scored a goal each. Zanaco's Kelvin Kalengo scored a penalty as a consolation goal for the home team. ZANACO coach Fighton Simukonda in a post match interview accepted the humiliating defeat saying Esperance was a more superior side in all areas. Simukonda blamed the late substitutions his bench made to have contributed to the humiliating defeat. His counterpart Jacky Dugueperoux said he was happy with the results despite playing on what he described as a' bad pitch.' Soccer fans who started trooping out of the stadium in middle of the second half said they were deeply disappointed with their team's defeat. One of ZANACO fans Simon Mwelwa called for the dismissal of Simukonda for a new one saying he was failing to read the game to make the necessary changes. At Independence stadium, Green Buffaloes did the nation proud after beating St. Pauloise 2-0. Playing before a capacity crowd, Buffaloes made their intentions known through midfielder Sydney Sekelele who struck the back of opponents' net in the 33 minute of the match. The Islanders defensive play became porous as Buffaloes continued attacks on the goal paid dividends when striker Sebastian Mwansa struck a volley in the 85th minute. Buffaloes coach George Lwanadamina said while he was happy with his team's performance, his bench would keep on making preparations for the next continental games. Lwanadamina said his team would re- focus its attention on local FAZ/KCM premier league games. ZANIS
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Well no complaints, we got a pettry good draw, compared to what we could of gotIt will be an interesting matchup with AC with most of their players and manager saying that Barca are the only team better than them (haha) We’ll show them that we are light years ahead of them, then there is the chance to shut Ibra up Not too sure about the other 2 teams, but they’ll fight it out for Europa Look forward to seeing the team be in Munich