Zambia U20 women’s national football team coach Oswald Mutapa remains hopeful of qualifying to the next round of the 2015 CAF U20 Women’s World Cup Qualifying Tournament following a goalless draw at home to South Africa in the first leg of the second qualification round of the for played at Nkoloma Stadium on Sunday.
Mutapa was happy that his team did not concede at home and told fazfootball.com in a post match interview that his team would go for a win in the second leg scheduled for the second week of October.
“The unlucky thing today is that we created a lot of chances but could not convert them into goals. On any day those chances would have resulted into goals,” Mutapa said.
“We needed to be more composed in front of goal. Maybe it’s pressure of playing at home.
“We remain hopeful of getting a goal in the second leg.
“We managed to score four goals away in the first round against Tanzania and if we take positives from that, we believe that we can score away against South Africa.
“We had a very tough game today and I think South Africa are technically better. We knew it would be a tough encounter but the good thing is that we did not concede.
“The draw does not affect our game plan for the second leg because our objective was not to concede in the first leg,” he said.
And South Africa U20 women’s national team coach Elisabeth Migchelsen was bullish in describing her team’s prospects for the second leg.
“Most of the Zambian players went to the World Cup in Costa Rica and you could see that they have a lot of experience; you could see that on the field. Personally, I am not afraid of any team; the second leg will start at 0 – 0 and after 90 minutes we will know the winner,”she said.
Migchelsen added that she was not under any kind of pressure to deliver a win in the second because her’s was a developmental team which needed to gain experience from playing tough international matches.
The second leg is scheduled for the weekend of 9th to 11th October at the Makhulong Stadium in Tembisa with a kick off time of 15h00.
The winner of this tie will play the winner of the tie between DR Congo and Nigeria in the third qualification round.