Malawi National Football Team are technically out of the 2018 Cosafa Castle Cup following Wednesday’ 1-1 draw to Botswana.
The Flames needed a win to keep their quarterfinal chances alive but the Zebra’s dying minutes equalizer means Ronny Van Geneudgen’ men are out of the competition.
The Flames started like a house on fire as they used their pace to trouble the Zebra’s defence and opened their scoring just after seven minutes through the young promising left back Precious Sambani.
RVG used the same line up which lost to Mauritius on Monday and this had a very massive negative impact as Gastin Simkonda was reduced to a passenger throughout the match.
Botswana tried to test Brighton Munthali in goals for the host from a distance, but the long range shot sailed wide.
The visitors nearly came close to finding an equalizer just after the half hour mark but Munthali was very alert to deny the Zebras from finding the back of the net.
Rafick Namwera and John Banda were failing to coordinate, forcing the two midfielders to play deeply into their own half as Malawi opted to defend their slender lead.
Come second half, Botswana were more offensive than the Flames but lacked firepower in front of goals.
At the other end of the field, Richard Mbulu forced himself into Botswana’s half before releasing a thunderbolt which missed the goal mouth with an inch.
RVG brought in Alfred Manyozo Jnr for the ineffective Dalitso Sailesi while Chiukepo Msowoya came in for Sinkonda.
The change brought an imminent impact as Malawi pressed harder in search of more goals but the Zebras defence was too stubborn to unlock.
With less than three minutes to play, Malawi’s disease of conceding in the late stages of matches came back to haunt them as Botswana levelled the scoreline I’m the 87th minute.
Defender John Lanjesi was caught napping in the line of defense, failing to stop Botswana’s forward before firing past helpless Munthali to completely dash Malawi’s hopes of making it into the last eight of the competition.
The result sees Malawi occupying 4th position with a point from two games while Botswana have maintained their top position with four points from the same number of games.
????Malawi ndiotsalila pachilichose,musazabwereso kuno zingolimani chingambwe. no fitness players.very poor confidence. Fotsek
????Malawi ndiotsalila pachilichose, zingolimani chingambwe. Bola inapita ndi Dr Banda. Musazabwereso ku S.A. kuno pankhani ya mpira inuzisilu manyazi mulibe?muzingomenya chomangacho konko
I do not think we do have a coach,strikers even the attacking midfielderso, but all I could see were just defenders, we have to find coach who can teach the boys tactical football,remember this is 2018,the football style that flames play is 1956 type of football, I don’t blame the boys but the coach, Kinna phIri’s team were far much better tactically and offensively, but this new squad is far from exciting, far from p?performing, all I could see was phada fatally. Shame German cheap coach. Worst of time bringing that guy.rearly killed football philosophy in malawi
Do we have strikers? Whats wrong with this team of Dwarfs?
congratulations the big flames for the loss. Thus your usual tactics. Next time avoid selecting players from only one team as if we don’t have other clubs in the country. Hope you have learnt a lesson from your stubbornness am talking to the bigwigs responsible for the selection. To be frank with you, am deeply disappointed with you notorious people. You should be listening to the views of the people. Otherwise that is our team.
Hahahaha koma zinazi..kkkkkkkk.