Our Africa Cup destiny is in our hands says Herve Renard.
Zambia on Tuesday play face their biggest Africa Cup test when they take Burkina Faso in a must win Group C match at Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit.
Renard side must beat Burkina Faso while a draw will spell doom for the defending champions who could end a 20-year record that saw Algeria fail at the same stage in 1992.
“Of course we have more pressure than Burkina Faso meaning that they only need a draw,” Renard said.
“We are strong enough because we know this situation.”
Renard said the team could repeat its 2010 feat of qualifying with one draw, a defeat and a win.
“In 2010 we drew 1-1 against Tunisia, we lost to Cameroon and we beat Gabon and we learnt a lesson,” Renard said.
“Now we have our destiny in our hands.”
FANS PLEASE SING THE DONCHI KUBEBA SONG TO POWER UP OUR BOYS AT THE MATCH
#1 Kaponya, that is extreme shallow of thinking, and its so annoying to see you PFs among supporters, that’s why we failed to beat Ethiopia. Because of your presence.
How can you support na bamba yekayeka!!?
Ethiopia 2-0 Nigeria, Zambia qualify.
Mulandako ifwamano, muli be Congo.
TB JOSH has predicted that Zambia will eliminate the strongest and most feard African team in the semi finals of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations……..
That can only be achieved by rest Chris. kwamana!
Who cares, seriously I have no interest in football and
From what I have been told you were extremly fortuitous to win last year
10 Things springs to mind suddenly
1) You are the shortest Champions in the history of this competition meaning you shall be easily forgotten
2) You have been fortunate with referees So I hear
3) You could not beat a team with 10 men in the first game
4) No one is scared of Zambia
5) One swallow does not make a summer
6) Please stop wasting people’s times and Money
7) For a team that are champions you are an embarrassment beyond words
8) All Zambians know you won’t win it
9) Everyone knows fact no 8
10) I have never cared about football
Thanks
Ok mate I understand you don’t care about football. Keeping silent could be better than commenting on an issue you have no idea at all. Sometimes you do try to much to bring comedy here but it’s not interesting honestly !
Mushota, it’s true you’ve never cared about our soccer:
That’s why you know that Zambia are the defending champions
That’s why you know that we couldn’t beat a 10-man side
That’s why you know that a referee has unjustly been punished for a penalt awarded to us
Indeed you are not interested and don’t care about soccer! Hahaha…
On this one i support Mushota.With dreadful slums,shacks for classrooms & high unemployment we have so many better things to focus on than soccer.Remember this-Rich people have small TV’s but big libraries and poor folks have small libraries but big TV’s.Zambians fall in the latter category.
Mushota reserve yo energy for prostitution than commenting on things yu don’t know and understand. How do yu teach small ones as a pre school teacher
If you have never cared about football why do you even waist you precious time commenting?
Tomorrow Zambia will win 3-1. The only time Zambians could start getting worried is when we don’t score two goals in the first half, the Zambia Vs Burkina Faso game will be won in the first half!
3-1, since when has Zambia scored more one goal in a game? Who will score those 3 goals? Can come with the names. The only time we won by a big margin was when FIFA helped us to 3-0 win over Sudan. Can you name that players that scored these goals. I have watched our first 2 games and can say we do not have strikers who can score and that is the main problem
I for one is worried and I am not as confident as you are cause I can see a dark cloud on Zambia football tomorrow. There a lot questions about this coach. Why does he not start with the boy from Power? Why does he not let William start? Chris is not in form. Mbesuma is too heavy and can’t run. Chisamba Lungu makes primary school football errors. Our defence is a problem. We only have the keeper. So how can you say we shall win?
Bwaima, do worry, we will win. The GK alone is enough to beat them all. The afcon cup is obvious coming back to Lusaka. Wait, they will be shocked again (lets hope it won’t induce heart attacks or severe depreesssion in those who are wishing us failure). Good luck, Chipolopolo; show them the gifts of good football and reserve enough ammunition for the grand finale. … and do not forget to protest for any dubious ref decision. Let’s test/apply the CAF/Nigeria golden rule.
WHEN YOU HAVE STUPIDITY ENGINEERED WITH IGNORANCE MULTIPLIED BY ORGANISED CONFUSION YOU GET A WARPED CHARACTER OF MUSHOTA WITH CHRONIC ORAL DIARRHEA .IF INDEED YOU ARE A ZAMBIAN THEN YOU ARE A TOTAL DISGRACE.YOU ARE LIKE MICHAEL JACKSON WHO WAS BORN A BLACK BOY BUT DIED A WHITE WOMAN.BE PROUD TO BE AN AFRICAN WOMAN IF INNDEED YOU ARE
WHETHER ZAMBIA WILL BE THE SHORTEST REIGNING AFRICAN CHAMPIONS IN THE HISTORY ,NO ONE WILL TAKE AWAY THAT THEY WERE ONCE AFRICAN CHAMPIONS.IT IS WRITTEN ZAMBIANS WERE ONCE AFRICAN CHAMPIONS PERIOD
Seeing as we are about to play the stallions (anglicised) it is only fair to say I am glad we are the rein-ing champions 🙂
Saddle up. Lock and load. Best of luck. It kills me that I have surgery tomorrow so won’t be conscious. Probably best. Tense match!
Sorry Mr. Phiri… Please get well soon…
Breaking News:
HR has complained to the international media that the president of Faz , Kalusha Bwalya is interfering in his job by giving him a list of players to play at 2013 Afcon.
Ositensibly, his interest to get kickbacks from the boys from what Grz has promised the boys.
Kalu has even threatened
HR with dismisal if he does not heed to Kalu’s directives.
It is also reportedly that the morale has gone down in the Zambia camp as HR seems to leave everything to Kalu hence not giving instructions at the bench.
More to follow . . . . . .
this rubbish, from which news channel/agency is this?
#7 bigboss, panyo-pako
Mushota get out. You a stanix
Wish our gallant boys the best of God’s blessings. We will only know the results when the last whistle is brown. We can only say what ever happens, we will continue to thank God for allowing us to at least be champions.
Thank God we enjoyed being champions and we say thank you, may your name be glorified by every Zambian with thanks giving.
‘whistle is blown’
Indeed, Glory be to GOD who lives for ever and ever. Let the team with God’s Grace WIN! We thank you and glorify your name LORD for making us happy in 2012.
I really do not understand what this guy says; is it a case of the message being lost in translation.
This division three French league coach will never cease to amaze me.
This kapoli has totally failed. Had it not been for Bonneti to build the team that won the championship, which he has not only failed to maintain but has completely rebased as well, we would have continued wallowing in the football wilderness.He has lamentably failed to add value to the national team
He ran away when we lost in Angola in 2010, why did Kalusha bring back this kapoli?
If we don’t qualify, we will just say, twalibelela
Maybe CAF can change the results of the first 2 games and award Zambia two 3-0 wins over i Ethopia and Nigeria, like FIFA did for the Sudan match. FAZ didn’t Nigeria and Ethopia not use players that were not eligable to play? Please inestigate and quckly before we play our last game we may be lucky to bag 6 free points and 6 goals scored
No matter what others say i thank God for what i’ve seen : Solar Eclipse,black US President, African World Cup,Zambia as Africa Champions.Many kings and presidents didn’t see these things. My happiness will NEVER be taken away if zambia fails to go thru.Once a champion,Owez a champion.
5 Keys to the game:
1. No rewarding opponents with unnecessary penalties. These kill the momentum of the game.
2. Start with the team that completed the game against the Super Eagles.
3. Do not feel comfortable with a 1-0 lead. Soccer is unpredictable and one mistake BF could level and we will be out. Minimize overlapping because Burkinabes could hit us on counter attacks.
4. May the coach please show some interest in the game. Lately he has been a little aloof. (and maybe wear the white shirt that brings us luck!).
5. Attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack from first whistle.
@4 bwaima, iyo iwe bwimina konse konse nakumutwa coz yo memory is warped. What were the scores between zambia/sudan last africa cup.
As for this internationally aclaimed prostitute called mushota, she shud shut her something or ist her ntweno.
Without doubt tomorrow’s match will be the most crucial for Zambia. The debate going on attests to this. The players need to keep their cool and remain focused and ignore the tug of war between Kalusha and the coach.
God,please let Zed be defeated B’Faso-3 Zed-0.For a nation teeming with plenty of fetid slums and 14th century classrooms its incongruous Zed is obsessed with soccer.We should be obsessed with improving our truly awful living conditions /poverty than obsess about useless leather ball.Zambia ishindwe,Amen.
Check this on bbc website: … Zambia will again be without first-choice keeper Abdoulaye Soulama, who completes his two-game ban. Kennedy Mweene, who has saved one penalty and scored another in these finals, will stand in once more. Burkina Faso will hope top scorer Alain Traore continues his excellent form.
Is this story correct? Does Abdoulaye Soulama play for Zambia? One wonders what’s the motive of such reports, if it isn’t the product of poor reportage.
I think it is a mix-up in reporting or printing. It is Ethiopia that will be without the their first choice goal keeper against Nigeria.
Kalu and Mwanza must resign they have overstayed.
Champions Zambia in danger zone
26 January 2013, 11:09
Zambia face a stiff task if they are to avoid the ignominy of becoming the first defending Africa Cup of Nations champions to fail to make it to the quarterfinals since 1992.
Algeria were the last title-holders to go out in the first round, following up their 1990 title win by picking up just one point from two matches two years later in Senegal.
Zambia’s backs are against the wall following a brace of 1-1 draws with Ethiopia and, on Friday, against Nigeria, when ‘keeper Kennedy Mweene saved the day by converting their penalty.
They now face the revelations of the competition, Burkina Faso, in Nelspruit on Tuesday.
Burkina are the shock Group C leaders after shrugging off the disadvantage of being reduced to 10 men…
God can not grant zambia a win because you zambian get over exited and lose life in the process. ever since the afcon started have we had any reports of people dying as a result of zambia winning? unless we change the over exitement!!!!!!!!!!
Please leave out the Lord’s name in such issues as football.
he he he!!!!!!!!
Excellent team line up
By Lubinda Chamileke
Zambia’s winning line-up:
1. Kennedy Mweene (c)
2. Emmanuel Mbola
3. Joseph Musonda
4. Davies Nkausu
5. Stophilla Sunzu
6. Isaac Chansa
7. Mukuka Mulenga
8. Rainford Kalaba
9. Jonas Sakuwaha/Jacob Mulenga
10. Collins Mbesuma
11. Emmanuel Mayuka
Formation: 4-3-3
My pick:
1. Kennedy Mweene (c)
2. Emmanuel Mbola
3. Joseph Musonda
4. Davies Nkausu
5. Stophilla Sunzu
6. NATHAN SINKALA
7. CHISAMBA LUNGU
8. ISAAC CHANSA
9. COLLINS MBESUMA
10. EMMANUEL MAYUKA
11. RAIFORD KALABA
# KA MUSHOTA! ukutumpa! you are a broke-a$$, lost and irrelevant slapper. im sick of seeking to foolish comments, if you have something to say, subscribe to Cosmo. how dare you question our chipolopolo. what has your stupid nick and his england done. foolish!
#23kalebalika, walasa! thats the winning squad, for sure
Face the Truth. We are out. Start building a team for 2015. There no quality to do the job. You can’t always rely on Luck
You are right. I am glad there are still some realists in Zambia. Zambia will be very very very lucky to make past the group stage. The Burkina Faso team is like a well organised and well oiled high speed machine. And the sandy Mbombela pitch favours them anyway since they are used to such pitches.
Lubinda you are you are spot on! I wish Renard could read these comments.
Zambia Balange!
The line up is ok but mbola plays #3 and joseph # 2 we have a problem for #4 as hh has put on alot of weight ,if there was way this line up could have been sent to the coach. HOW DO YOU GO TO A TOURNAMENT WITH FEW DEFENDERS viva zambia
win it with bright colours it is believed that history will repeat itself in 1996 we drew 1:1 0n 25th january and also 2013. What will us fail to beat Bukinafaso 4:0 when we beat them by the same margin on 29th january, 1996.
1996 ahaha kwena uli chipumbu
The die is cast for Zambia its a do or die game and always Zambia rises to the occasion in situations like this .We are winning this one and redeem to our chances of defending the trophy.Go Zambia Go.
What destiny ba Renard, just admit that your win last year was a fluke and now you can not cope with the pressure that comes with the champion tag.
There is no Egyptian referee, come back boys has you have failed us mwe fimakula .
ba chipolopolo boys lets go again,we r always behind u,come wat may,…forget vima PHDs like chi mushota…..umwela onse…….
check MTNfootball.com renard words “Meaning in Zambia after driving a Corolla for a long time now you begin to think you have the best team in the World. This is a big mistake.” Even the coach knows that Zambia is not the big team in Africa . Tuli makula and our first round exist today will prove that . Burkina faso 2 : Zambia 0
Our luck runs out today. Only a convincing win will do and the boys need to throw everything they have to avoid defeat. It’s not easy being champions but today we need some soul searching and purpose to rediscover our form. We all know it’s not easy but loose tonight will impact on every Zambian including the players who are looking for greener pastures in europe. Good luck Chipolopolo, you will need it tonight!!
Lets go Zed. Today you should show em why yoy are indeed champions.
Zambia has put itself in a very bad position cause even if they beat Burkina they are likely to face Ivory Cost in 1/4 finals. From the draws Burkina have an upper hand
Uganda 1 Zambia 0
Sudan 2 Zambia 0
South Korea 2 Zambia 1
Saudi Arabia 2 Zambia 1
Tanzania 2 Zambia 0
And you we can win tonite?
@Lukanga spot no, you left out
Angola 2 zambia 0
and some people na confidence ya (chipenfu) think we can win.
As I said earlier, its game over. Start building the young talent and come up as surprise package in 2015
Many people believe that whoever wins the match, But we are also given freewill. If the players will strive harder and focus in the game, they have greater chance of winning it.