Q FM Africa's Modern Radio
Zambia’s hopes of making a maiden appearance at the 2022 World cup tournament in Qatar came to a crushing end yesterday after the Chipolopolo boys were held to a one-all draw by Equatorial Guinea in a world cup qualifier played at Heroes National Stadium in Lusaka last evening.
The Beston Chambeshi tutored boys needed a victory in yesterday’s game to keep their chances of making a maiden world cup appearance alive.
Zambia started the game like a house of fire dominating the first half exchanges restricting the visitors in their own half but poor finishing on the part of the Chipolopolo meant they two teams went on the break nil all.
On the resumption of the game, the Chipolopolo continued to dominate and their pressure was rewarded when Fashion Sakala beat his marker and scored a beauty in the 67th minute before the visitors replied with a 82nd minute goal by Federico.
Tunisia who are in pole position to qualify to the next round of qualifiers lead the group with 10 points after drawing nil all with Mauritania who have only managed a point from their last 4 games.
Equatorial Guinea are in second place with seven point followed by Zambia with three points.
Zambia will host Mauritania in the next game before completing their fixtures with an away match against Tunisia.