Zesco United warm-up for this weekends 2016 CAF Champions League match with a Tuesday FAZ Super Division clash against Mighty Mufulira Wanderers.
Mighty visit Zesco in a rescheduled Week 16 game at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium.
The match will come five days before Zesco host ASEC Mimosa of Cote d’Ivoire in a Group A CAF Champions League fixture at the same venue.
Victory for Zesco against Mighty will see them extend their stay in second place and move within five points of leaders Zanaco.
Zesco have 32 points, one ahead of third placed Nkana and eight points behind Zanaco.
The defending champions are also seeking to rebound on Tuesday after Green Buffaloes held them to a 1-1 home draw on July 9 at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Lusaka just three days after Zesco defeated Red Arrows 2-0 at the same venue.
Meanwhile, Mighty have not beaten Zesco since the 2005 season when they won 1-0 at Shinde Stadium but the latter recovered in the final leg match to finish 0-0 in Ndola.
Mighty, who were relegated in 2005 and were promoted ten years later in 2015, lost both home and away against Zesco last season.
Zesco were awarded a 3-0 win after a first half abandonment of their away fixture at Shinde on August 8 after earlier beating Mighty a 4-1 at Levy in April.
And so the spotlight will be on Mighty’s new Portuguese born coach Paulo Silva who will be making his debut in Tuesday’s match for the 12th placed side to try and end the drought.
Someone recently told me that at half time instead of Mighty players being given bottled water, two buckets of water are brought where the players get their water from with cups. I don’t know how true this is.Now if Mighty can bring in an expatriate coach, what about FAZ? Can FAZ quickly bring in an expatriate please.
Lol!! Thats funny!! But its all a fabrication, bottled water is cheap man!!
That is not true!. Even if things are so bad Mighty can’t sink so low. Mighty will bounce back to winning ways! I have confidence in the team I have supported since 1977.
By the way, we drew with Zesco 1 all