2019 AFCON QUALIFIER -GROUP K
Namibia Vs Zambia
Sam Nujoma Stadium
16:00hrs
Zambia take on Namibia this Saturday at Samu Nujoma stadium in the 2019 AFCON qualifier from group k. We have 12 groups across were the 12 group winners and runners-up will qualify for the final tournament in Cameroon .
Zambia is in group K alongside Guinea, Mozambique and Namibia. In the first round of games, Namibia and Zambia were losers to Guinea and Mozambique respectively. Zambia fail to a 90th Ratino goal at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium to leave Chipolopolo shell shocked under Wedson Nyirenda as coach. In Tue other Group game, Gomes scored the lone goal for Guinea against Namibia in Guinea .
The two teams knows what they have to do to remain relevant in the chase for those top two slots needed to get out of the group. Another loss for either of these teams may just be difficult to play catch up with four games to play after this weekend one.
Namibia is at home and they feel they have the advantage facing a new look Chipolopolo team after Sven Vandenbroeck made what a lot believe as a very good squad.
Head to Head
These teams have met 18 times in their history with Zambia winning 8 while Namibia counts 4 wins, the other 6 have ended in draws.
The biggest wins for Zmbia ended in 4-0 victory in 1992 and 1993. After that it has been very close between these two sides with the common result being 0-0 .
In recent years Namibia has held the upper hand against Zambia, having won four, drawn one and lost two matches since 2015.
In 2015 Namibia beat Zambia 5-4 on penalties after a goalless draw in the quarterfinals, on their way to clinching the Cosafa Cup title for the first time.
In 2016 Namibia once again beat Zambia in the quarterfinals through a solitary goal by captain Ronald Ketjijere, while their most recent encounter ended in a 1-1 draw at the Chan finals in Morocco in January this year.
Absalom Iimbondi gave Namibia an early lead with a long range free kick, but Lazarous Kambole equalised for Zambia with a great shot midway through the first half. UTH these players are in the squads foe RHE weekend.
Namibia hence kow what it takes to play Zmabia and will get into this encounter with very high confidence knowing they have been very good on recent games.
Prediction
You don’t know what to expect from Zambia because it will be the first time we are seeing Sven coaching. Unfortunately there has not been a chance to have a friendly for Zambia hence this will be the first time we see what the new head coach has in store for Chipolopolo. He could get everything wrong or everything correct.
Though from my prediction table, will concentrate on the players called and I think he has done very well. It is the call ups of this team that pushes me to believe Zambia has the mantle to get a positive result away to Namibia this coming weekend. That will be a massive win but then, should Sven drop points and worse off lose, then Zambia would be left in a quagmire and the high possibility of missing out at the AFCON will be on the table.
Am going for an away win.
My Prediction : Namibia 1-2 Zambia
