Collins Mbesuma says Orlando Pirates will not underestimate Zanaco despite enjoying a 1-0 away win in their CAF Champions League first round, first leg over their hosts on Saturday at Nkoloma Stadium in Lusaka.
Mbesuma played an impressive opening 70 minutes despite not finding the target but did enough to torment his compatriots in his first competitive club game back in Zambia since 2003.
“We are waiting for the next return leg and we are not going to underrate them just because we beat them,” Mbesuma said.
“We are going to go all out they are a good team but we got one chance and scored.”
Mbesuma said he was also pleased with his performance before his was replaced by Oupa Manyisa in the 70th minute.
“My performance was okay you know you are playing away from home it is difficult all the time so you need to play tactically as the coach said so that you do not concede,” Mbesuma said.
Mbesuma now switches focus to Zambia who enter camp today in Johannesburg ahead of their March 24 away to Lesotho in a 2014 FIFA World Cup Group D qualifier in Maseru.
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the coach for zanaco is a lunatic. Why did he say all those rubbish words about mbesuma days before the match was played? Zanaco played like a team from a shant compound always outmuscled by pirates coz zanaco players are as frail as their sickly coach.
@2 what kind of comments do you expect, what you wrote about Zanaco’s coach is not funny. Amano yabu PF all the time.
Ba TONY BLAIR when we told you that league football in Zambia is tactless and in dire need of surgery you called us names and also rubbished the EPL which at least is professional …love ’em or hate ’em ZANACO represent Zambian league football as they are the league champions. When we tell you that FAZ is not doing enough people think we have scores to settle with the incompetent suits in Football House.
Waking up time now!!
jay jay! If the EPL was more professional than us, they wouldn’t ve 80% foreign players playing in their league, 80% foreign coaches,80% foreign ownership of clubs, maintain same ancient style of playing of football making england the most under archiever amongst the elits of world football-… Italy, germany, france, brazil, spain & argentina. none of these countries has ever hired forein coach for its national team but england has, putting itself same level with 3rd world countries.
@Jay jay ,tell us what faz should do.The respective clubs have there own managements. What are they doing themselves? We know yo kind and yo altitude toward some groups of pipo in this nation and that is driving u mad.
Osmore. i agree with you. However, we need our league to be well sponsored. Do you know how much these guys in RSA league get paid per month or per win? Its more than some of the salaries for Engineers in Zed. Thus motivation is very high. We need that level of remuneration in the Zed league to compete favorably in such tornaments. Talent that is not motivated has its own limitation.
Its not only about remunerations its also about professionalism what do you expect if our national team camps in RSA with no exit strategy. Wouldn’t it be better to have those selfsame facilities and technical know-how at home for our league clubs to replicate or use..instead of sending forex abroad? Just calculate how much money we have been spending in RSA for the past 5 years; they more we spend there the more their football benefits.
From my humble association with Zesco United FC during the time they played Continental football, I learnt that football is all about proper planning, putting minds together, the excom, technical bench and players and the fourth estate the supporters.
Football is played outside the pitch with the good planning done by the executive, technical bench and only confirmed on the pitch by the players. We need to revisit the training resume of the players, let them run with the ball 90% of the time in training rather run around the pitch like training for relay or 100 meters senior boys race.
YOU WILL SEE ZANACO WILL DO BETTER AT ORLANDO STADIUM.
JUST ACCEPT THAT THERE IS NO INFRASTRUCTURE IN ZAMBIA. YOU SIT IN A WALL FENCED PITCH AND CALL IT A STADIUM.
Guys pliz let us shift focus to this weekend’s outing in maseru. What will/should be our team composition, Who starts & who should warm the bench, do we start Mayuka so that he proves his employers wrong by not even putting him on the bench these days????? Such is what i would love to read. What do we know about our opponents? I don’t want what happened in South Africa to recur.