Zambia National Team U-20 coach Beston ‘Quicksilver’ Chambeshi has expressed delight at his side’s 1-0 win over Guinea in their opening group A match played at the Heroes Stadium in Lusaka today 26th February, 2017.
Patson Daka’s 48th minute strike gave the hosts the all important victory over a resolute Guinea side.
Chambeshi described the win as sweet and is already looking forward to the next game against Mali on Wednesday 1 March 2017.
“It wasn’t easy playing Guinea because their tactical approach was good. Overall I am happy that my boys applied themselves well, they looked sharp and especially our goalkeeper our made two important saves. In our collective play we were able to show that we have a strong team.
“It is a sweet victory and I am happy that we have started on a good note. We will now focus on our next match,” He said at a post match conference.
And his counterpart Mandjou Diallo said his team still has chance to make it out of the group.
“It is regrettable that we started with a loss but we have picked some lessons from this match which we will rectify in our next game. We are not supposed to make simple mistakes in such games. We wanted to at least to equalize to get a draw but that did not happen. We lost but we are not out because the result is not the end of the road for us in this competition. We will now focus on our next match,” said Diallo.
SOURCE: FAZ FOOTBALL
