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10-Man Ethopia Embarass Chipolopolo
10-man Ethiopia embarrassed champions Zambia in a gutsy display in a dramatic 1-1 draw in Nelspruit.
Ethiopia didn’t disappoint today at Mbombela Stadium and showed every ounce that they deserved and earned their ticket to South Africa and Saladin Said tormented Zambia’s star with a man of the match performance.
Ethiopia were unlucky not to have taken the lead from the penalty spot in the 23rd minute after Chisamba Lungu tripped Said in the area.
Said stepped up to take the resultant penalty but found Kennedy Mweene in fine form to parry his attempt.
More drama came with the send-off Bushura Tasew after he pulled Chisamba before faking injury.
Play was stopped for seven minutes as Tasew tried to buy time but referee Castane Otogo was having none of it.
Zambia took advantage of Ethiopia’s deficit and striker Collins Mbesuma slotted in the opener after dancing his way through two defenders to bang in from a good assist off Isaac Chansa.
However Ethiopia refused to be intimidated and took the game to Zambia.
Adane Girma leveled scores in the 63rd minute with his shot deflected off the post before rolling into the back of the net.
Zambia threw everything they had at Ethiopia but Ethiopia countered thanks mostly to the 12th man.
Zambia now set their sights on Nigeria hoping to redeem themselves while Ethiopia have another chance for a potential giant killing act against Burkina Faso on December 25.
MTNfootball
Posted by Admin
on January 21, 2013. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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SHUSHUSHU
January 23, 2013 at 9:56 am
DOMBWA chikala chawiso politics aside, its all football here niwebo MMD or UPND labakofye. Lets analyz the performance of our national team.
Simwendalike
January 23, 2013 at 11:31 am
@ 1kilogram leave Tongas alone. Its stupidity of the highest order to bring tribalism here.The topic is about the perfomance of the Zambia National Team and not Bemba,Nyanja,Lozi or any of the 73 tribes’ National Teams in Zambia.Zambia is for all of us.Period!!!
chisala
January 23, 2013 at 11:56 am
This Mamadou guy is so irritating awe mwandi kwati chimina mumona……………@ Ken what do u mean BAD COACH????????????? Renard is gud just say he didnt plan for this game not wat ya saying naimwe……….we still have a chance lets supot our boyz most teams drew we can do this.What is Nigeria lets supot our boys and kip sugestin the line up Renard will pik one thing out of what he reads in papers and news