Zambia, eSwatini Register Dramatic CHAN Second Leg Victories
4th August 2019
Goals from Omaatla Kebatho and Segolame Boy twice gave Botswana the lead during a pulsating first half and Emmanuel Chabula and Kelvin Kampamba scored equalisers
- Zambia and eSwatini snatched dramatic victories and Ugandan Patrick Kaddu scored a hat-trick Saturday in African Nations Championship (CHAN) second round second leg qualifiers
- Favourites after forcing a 0-0 first leg draw in Botswana, Zambia had to come from behind twice to win 3-2 in Lusaka and secure a place in the final qualifying round
- After two comfortable home wins over Botswana in past CHAN qualifying competitions, this was a much closer call than anticipated for former bronze medalists Zambia
JOHANNESBURG, South
Africa- Zambia and eSwatini snatched dramatic victories and Ugandan Patrick
Kaddu scored a hat-trick Saturday in African Nations Championship (CHAN) second
round second leg qualifiers.
Favourites after forcing a 0-0 first leg draw in Botswana,
Zambia had to come from behind twice to win 3-2 in Lusaka and secure a place in
the final qualifying round.
Goals from Omaatla Kebatho and Segolame Boy twice gave
Botswana the lead during a pulsating first half and Emmanuel Chabula and Kelvin
Kampamba scored equalisers.
Substitute Bruce Musakanya put the home team ahead for the
first time on 67 minutes and it proved the goal that won the second leg and the
tie.
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After two comfortable home wins over Botswana in past CHAN
qualifying competitions, this was a much closer call than anticipated for
former bronze medalists Zambia.
Few pundits gave eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) much chance
of surviving a trip to Angola after being held 1-1 at home last weekend.
But the team from the tiny southern Africa kingdom fought
back after trailing 1-0 at half-time to draw 1-1 and won 4-3 on penalties.
The reward for eSwatini, who are coached by experienced Serb
Kosta Papic, is a final round showdown with Zambia and the winners go to the
2020 tournament in Cameroon.
Kaddu scored his hat-trick as Uganda outplayed Somalia 4-1
in Kampala having taken a two-goal lead into the return match to qualify 7-2
overall.
He converted two penalties before half-time and completed
his treble three minutes into the second half while Allan Kyambadde was the
other Ugandan scorer.
Somalia, a violence-ravaged country making a rare
international football appearance, claimed a late consolation goal via Duad
Tubal.
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Senegal were another country to win convincingly at home,
scoring three second-half goals for a 3-0 triumph over Liberia in Dakar.
It was the eighth consecutive home victory by the Senegalese
in CHAN qualifying and the fifth straight win in which they have scored three
goals.
Jean Louis Barthelemy Diouf broke the deadlock on 50 minutes
and Ousseynou Niang and Abdoulaye Ba got the goals that secured Senegal a 3-1
aggregate victory.
Sidi Touda bagged a brace for Mauritania as they defeated
debutants Cape Verde 2-1 in Nouakchott to advance on aggregate by the same
score after a goalless first leg.
The match was more one-sided than the scoreline suggests
with Cape Verde pulling a goal back only in the final minute of regular time.