LIVE: Zambia Vs Nigeria (FINAL SCORE 1-1)

1. Is it just me or is Collins Mbesuma missing even on the bench?

   • i have seen mbesuma on the bench

   • number 9

   • Herve is hilarious, he bench Hichani and convert Nkausu to center back for first time of his life, in crucial final match?
     Next match he should bench umwaiche Sinkala and start with BEMULLE!!!

   • What a shame! Our technical bench is one of gamblers rather than tacticians. We have the capacity to put one of the strongest squads in this tournament if the coaches respect the country more than the aspirations of some individual players. Some of the clear shortcomings in the Nigeria game:
     1. Chisamba Lungu is a liability when you play him as defender
     2. Let’s bye goodbye to CHRIS Katongo, the lad has contributed much to our soccer, but his time has come to let others carry on the button
     3. Anyone watching Sakuwaha will wonder why coaches keep him on the best. This boy must be in the starting line up
     4. Why do we play a reactive game where we can only be compelled to use the right players when we are in trouble? Going forward, we’ve a lot of homework to do in the defence dept, coz…

2. MBESUMA?????

3. Where is Mbesuma? I cannot locate his name in the line up and on the bench! Ngatwalusa, we will say donchi to Renard!!

   • namukolwa ba pushi…whats on 9

   • What time did you satart drinking

4. Whats the whereabouts of Collins Mbesuma? Good luck zambia. Its about time naija boys gave us respect!

5. Lets go Zambia

6. uyu coach nabamutuma chikalahh chakweh,ap ngachibika jacob mulenga,collins mbesuma na mayuka. iyi system of playing one striker is a flop.this game needs goals and not defensive ifima draw

   • Better mukuka not jacob, first game ina muvuta, ze better adya bench boss!

7. Best wishes Chipolopolo. No sloppy defense this time. Two or three goals, will do.

8. good line up for Zambia nice to mayuka on the line up.

9. CHIPOLOPOLO ELO SINIKAMBA PALI MFUTI IWE NINAKUUZA……………….

10. Go Zed Goallllll.

11. Zambia wont survive today.Why field Mayuka who went to Southampton to warm the bench!

12. This is the best line up Zambia could ask for. Zambia needs speed and this line up gives it speed. Mbesuma is too slow and when he plays we are as good as playing one man down. He is only effective when he has the ball inside the 18 otherwise he wastes a lot of balls for the others. Go Zambia Go!! Zambia 1 Nigeria 0

    • You are right we need the pace in this game and that should be our game plan and we should utilize the chances that we create

13. I was wondering where Victor Moses was. Here he is. Chelsea Danger man!

    • we are not afraid of him he will fall like Drogba did he will find Nkausu and Mbola baleteya uyu umu nai nai

14. How come all the teams in all the 4 groups are sitting on 1 point each after the 1st rounds at this tournament – is this a mere coincidence? it’s the first time I have heard of such a scenario, pretty remarkable.

    Anyway good luck to the boys tonight.

15. The defence does not look very good we are missing another central defender who is going to partner sunzu is it Joseph Musonda, he has never played in the central role for zambia anyway i wish the team and the technical bench good luck. Go Zambia Go show them what the copper bullet is made of.

16. Why is mbesuma on the bench?

17. Renard seems to have sold these matches or is it only me hallucinating? it is just my premonition anyway. The way he commented on the Ethiopia draw?!

18. Choswe cenjela, ichani tacikula mainsa.

19. Off we go!

20. Jeez, you Zambians are stone-broke; you mean to say you can’t go to South Africa and cheer the team. Zambia, now I know I was right to leave! All I see in internet tabloids are homicides, poverty and gibberish coming from his Senseless the President of the Republic of Zambia Chilufya Sata Michael!
    On a serious note, let’s get serious: every realist and Zambian worth their salt knows that The Zambia National Soccer Team won’t retain the African Cup, on the other hand, they will return without the African Cup! (Now, look at that PF’S communist stupid fanatic face like ‘what in the hell is this blogger talking about?’)

21. The odds are against you Zambians. In today’s game against Nigeria, nobody’s gonna bet on a Christian beating a Muslim!

    • What’s special about muslim? In fact the name muslim sends jitters down my spine.

    • mmm ba makavelli u bringing ur christian vs muslim nonsense here..sorry thats not our struggle..zambians are ‘people’ we r not an entity that masquerades as a country full of brain washed savages..good luck with ur propaganda!

    • you will be wearing bombs soon.i can tell

22. All the best Zambia

23. Kalaba nearly banged it in

24. Zambia is enjoying early posession… Kalaba just worsted a chance.

    There are too many long balls though from both sides… not much passing.

25. LT, could you please provide an HD link for clear picture?

    • If you are in Europe go to eurosport, they providing stunning HD on Ch 410.

    • Thanks Distant Drums… but I’m not in Europe. See my flag?

      By the way did you mean a an internet HD streem or digital TV?

26. Nigeria starting to settle down night and some bit of panicking by our lads at the back… easy does it fellaz.

27. These tuma commentators are obliquely racist.

    • What have the said that is racist? Are you listening to Eurossport link on LT? I have only heard them speaking about long balls and not much passing, is that what you call racist?

    • Note use of the word “obliquely”. As for the rest of it: well if you don’t see it nothing I say can make you see it. So enjoy the game my fellow Zambian.

28. What is he talking about, only Barca passes the ball around in Europe, the rest they play one man striker and play long balls. Africans (especially Zambia and Nigeria) used to play passing football in the 90’s… not sure what’s happened over time.

29. Kalaba is on fire today

30. What a penalty save by Mweene!

    • It was a miss. Zambia are riding their luck too much.

    • Mukame if it was a miss a corner kick would not have been awarded to the Nigerians, the fact is Mweene saved it by parrying the ball away.

31. Oh no way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

32. Great… THANK YOU JESUS!!!

33. God is on our side. Nigeria has missed a Penalty

34. Good Mweene

35. Nigerian keeper saves from a free kick.

36. We need a corresponding penalty from this ref… that was a weak and cheap penalty to give.

37. am not happy with the football pitch too sandy

38. Another chance goes begging from a free kick to Zambia

39. I think Zambia are wasting far too many good scoring chances.

    • Gotta agree with you… we will rue all these chances. We are enjoying the possession thus far but nothing is coming out of it.

40. Continue amacomments kaili. Am not watching the game, first nga twaingisha.

41. Egypt official, a little bit suspect.

42. So how did Nkausu cause the penalty but did not receive a yellow card? Or did he? I didn’t see it at all.

43. Beesha no kuloser ba Chipolopolo, ama Nigerian mbomba nabo teti chiwame. Lets intercede.

44. North Africa links.

45. We can easily beat these Nigerians. So far they haven’t done anything that makes me think they are any good or rather better than us.

46. Half time. still hoping for the best.

47. just in.

48. It’s a disappointing 1st half, apart from Mweene Zambia have not shown any spark befitting defending champions. From the 4 or so wasted chances they could have scored at least 2. I hope the coach will do something during his pep talk.

49. Lets harmer them lelobaletwishiba!

50. Kalaba is amazing… Nigeria is sheety. The first half goes to Zambia even though we haven’t got anything to show for it.

    I like the workmanship and the hassling from Zambia (exactly how they slayed Giants pretenders last year in Ghana and Ivory Coast)… it looks scruffy at times but hey it works.

51. Too many wasted opportunities by Zambia….why the long balls on such an awful pitch?

52. So far i haven’t seen anything super about these so called super eagles.Although there’s no end product i’d say zed has been the better side.

53. this ref bane,,, no,,, no,,, no,,., he is a bad one.
    lets just hope for the better.

    • True, the Ref is not fair.

54. My reaction when when I saw that Nkausu was a central defender today was wow. If we go back to the penalty we conceded against Ivory Coast in the final,it was a similar play against Nkausu,just 1 sec late to the ball. I would rather play him at right back and let Joseph Musonda come in the central position. So far it looks like 2 overated teams without a plan saying a draw would be okay.

55. Live streaming kalefuma.

56. The Nigerians have started the 2nd half with much more ambitious intentions… higher tempo. No, not Sunzu please.

57. Zambia nearly in trouble

58. Nigeria score!

59. Zambia you’re out!

60. Oh no no no… I thought our player was fouled just before he got dispossessed. Now I know the ref is bias.

61. Zambia now working harder to equalise

    • The goal is probably what we needed to unlock the game, even though we are trailing.

62. This Emenike is now causing our defence problems…. he is trong on the ball too.

63. Definitely losing this will take us out of the tournament

64. WINE PLEASE!

    • I would rather prefer they win.

65. Chisamba and Katongo out.

66. Good change on Katongo… he has passed his use by date.

67. How come it looks slow on my laptop, please guys fast ball please, time is running out.

68. Truly school boy football.

69. Time is slowly but surely ticking on

70. We really need to retain posession in the midfield… we are given away the ball too cheap.

71. What a miss by Zambia, the best chance for them so far

72. That is now football… Mbesuma is making a difference

    • Nomba tuwine nokowina kaili…

73. Why is everyone called ‘Emmanuel’ in our Zambian team? 🙂

    By the way which part of Zambia is ‘Mbola’ from? Lozis call ‘ball’ ‘Mbola’ 🙂

74. I think we have used all our substitutions, right?

75. We need to complete these attacks… gents forget it we will be out of these games unless something dramatic happens in the next 10 mns.

76. What are the chances if zambia lose this game?

    • It will be mathematical chances that w will be depended on the results of other games.

77. @ Distant Drums… this second commentator dude is too negative… now I understand what you meant. While he is right, he is just too disrespectiful.

78. What is Mbesuma doing with that?

79. Penalty to Zambia awarded

80. Mweene scores from the spot

81. Whoaaa,God bless Mweene.

82. Mweene scores, bless you Mweene

83. Kanshi twaingisha?
    Please God make us win this one please am asking.

84. This 2nd commentator must be Nigerian… what is going about the penalty not being a penalty… ridiculous

85. I think the ref was just making up for that first penalty he gave to Nigeria I have to say… luck we. I’m not complaining, I will take the results 🙂

86. It’s a goal for Zambia,God bless mweene !

87. I think Mweene is the star player for Zambia, apart from saving dangerous shots he scores goals.

    • Without a doubt… Man of the Match too.

88. 1-1 is better, even though it still leaves us in a tricky stituation.

89. iye ba mwene

    • Wamona ati mukali te??? but aleuma bewino yachilamoneka kwati yaima mumulu

90. Zambian players are not intelligent.

    • And you are?

      What makes you say so?

    • have you played soccer your self? if you are the best why are you not in our national team?

    • Ever heard of the term “football intelligence”? For example , when a team is under pressure , intelligent players will strive to maintain possession of the ball so as to remove the “stingy” from the game. The Zambians were instead inviting trouble on to themselves because they were “hoofing” the ball back to the Nigerians and inviting trouble onto themselves. @ Mwiponta Mukabwela, you don’t need to be a footballer to be able to tell a bad footballer from a good footballer. I am quite sure you are capable of judging a good president from a bad one despite never having been a President yourself!

91. why wont they go into overtime if the its a draw?

    • Because it’s not knock out or elimination stages yet – last 16, ¼; Semis and Finals. Group stages don’t have extra or penalty shootout times.

      You probably watch Rugby or Basketball or American Football, right?

92. Tikali kuenda

93. With these one-all draws so far we are still not out of the woods yet.

94. Bravoooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

    We are very proud of you our Chipolopolo boys.

    Nigerians spewed a load of rubbish now let them eat their words.

95. Another draw still no win for the “champions”…we are going to rely on the outcome of the next game in the group!!

96. Whats up with the live streaming, i cant see nothing! can someone tell me where we are with penauties? fast am nervous.

97. I thought we go to penauties, sudden death or anyting, congrates anyways, nigeria are a big name you cant say it was a bad resuilt.

    • I love you.

    • Zambia is huge

98. Between Nigeria and Zambia who are the current African champions. Excuse after excuse won’t help the Zambian team. Celebrating a draw, honestly? What next? Zambians are the champions and we should be upset with a draw.

99. yaa now let ethiopia vs burkina faso be 0-0
    and nigeria vs ethiopia also 0-0
    then zambia vs burkina faso will be 1-0 at the very least
    then wel advance to the next stages :-)my predictions

100. Moreover, the headlines will be Zambia held to a draw…Nigeria holds Zambia and not the other way round.

     • Either way there is nothing to celebrate about…as we were pathetic wasting clear cut chances in front of goal only saved by the ref who gave us a penalty when it wasn’t.

     • I agree with you totally, that penalty awarded to Zambia should not have been, even the repeats in slow motion did not show what the infringement was. Anyway these things happen in football.

101. Katongo is a useless player he shouldn’t start in the next game.There should give the captainship to mweene.

     • This comment would come as a surprise to those that voted Katongo as African Footballer of the Year.

102. Come on guys those with knowledge what has to happen in the next game for Zed to advance? Jay Jay says something about the outcome of the next game being important.

103. Nigeria was reduced to super chickens….we had better scoring chances than them

     • BUT did you take them eh?

     • Sad the copper bullets would not kill even a chicken!

     • so because the ref gave you a ‘free’ penalty you now have a voice?? champs no doubt lol

104. It was a fair play they both had great chances to score but couldn’t capitalize on them. I thought Katongo was bit selfish on the edge of eighteen box, the guy did not give passes to open team mates he just wanted to shoot.

105. Anything can happen in the league phase.
     Qualification here is always Mathematical, no matter how good a team is.

106. Mwene almost gave me a heart attack i thought that was going over the bar then i saw the ball in the back of the net

107. Sadly it all depends on the outcome of the next game in the group…really disappointing that as “champions” we should be relying on outcomes of other games. You wonder what these guys were doing in training the past few days; too many amateur “school boy” errors. HR should now swallow the bitter pill and bench Chris as he hasn’t learned anything new in training since the last game.

108. We need to move on to the next match after thanking God for today!! God has really been on our side. Bless you all Zambians.

109. Mweene the Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

110. Mweene for 2016..result oriented individual ena he performs muli 90 minutes!!

111. Oooh my goodness,the Ethiopians are crying.What a loss…..and with an extra man.

112. Watching Burkina Faso Vs Ethiopia. Please twapapapata Burkinabese slow down on those Ethiopians.! If you score too many goals you might make our chances of qualifying difficult because we shall need the same number of goals against you but judging by the way you are playing it is not possible for anyone to score three goals against you. Zambia, the odds are stacked against us!

113. What are the permutations for Zambia to qualify assuming that Nigeria will beat Ethiopia by say 2 goals to zero. This is looking tricky…

     • Only a convincing win will do for us!!

     • No many permutations mate, we just have to beat Burkina faso. If we draw and Nigeria draw with Ethopia it will come down to goals scored on the night e.g if we draw 0-0 and Nigeria draw 1-1 with Ethiopia we will be eliminated. We have to score goals.

114. this is why i laugh at those primitive zambians who adore and worship the english premier league which is full of unskilled players. Those useless biased english commentators were trying at all costs to put zambia down because of those chelsea players in the nigerian team. Its no wonder even england can never win the world/euro cups because of over hipping from the british media. Playing in the english premier league makes an african player lose his skills coz what obtains in the epl is running like a rabid dog from one end to the other. Zambia out played nigeria and if nigeria was better as those riffruff commentators wanted the world to believe why didnt nigeria score 4 goals.

     • Walasa!

     • British commentors were spot on especially on the technical aspect of the game….our players were quick to kick the ball forward after a few passes and do not cheat yourself in thinking that Nigeria was outplayed. We were absolutely rubbish…Burkina Faso have managed to do the job we lamentably failed to do as so called champions. Just win games then talk…

     • And this is what I meant by “obliquely racist” in an earlier comment.

115. Bring it on Burkinabes.What you did to Ethiopia shud be done against zed (4-0) on your upcoming clash.Amazambians need to get back to building classrooms and cleaning our dirty towns and leave football to other nationals.Please eliminate zambians.

     • Wrong prayer and one less likely to be heard!

116. We need to beat Burkina faso. No two ways about it – I am assuming Nigeria will beat Ethopia. We are treading on shells. I am not happy with our start – especially the lack of ‘fire-power’ upfront. I think, inspite of our indvidual skills, proper decision making around the 18′ area leaves much to be desired.

117. jay jay can see you have a sick inferior head like those two english commentators. seems you dont anything about football.

118. Mweene for Captain

119. Goal Zambia Goal.

120. Goal Zambia Goal!!!!

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