Zambia will face Senegal of their second Group A fixture on the TotalEnergies CAF Ladies’s Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2024 on the El Bachir Stadium in Mohammedia on Wednesday (kick-off: 17:00 native time / 16:00 GMT).
The 2 nations beforehand met within the quarterfinals of the 2022 version, the place the match ended 1-1 after additional time. Zambia triumphed 4-2 on penalties. In that encounter, Senegal took the lead by means of Nguenar N’Diaye within the 61st minute, earlier than Avell Chitundu equalised for Zambia within the seventieth. The sport went to additional time after which penalties, the place Zambia prevailed.
Zambia are unbeaten of their final three matches in opposition to West African opposition on the WAFCON finals. In 2022, they defeated Togo within the group stage, drew with Senegal (earlier than successful on penalties), and beat Nigeria within the third-place play-off.
Senegal, in the meantime, will probably be going through Southern African opposition for the third time on the finals. Along with their shoot-out loss to Zambia in 2022, additionally they misplaced 1-0 to South Africa within the 2012 group stage.
PAST WAFCON MEETING:
Quarterfinals – 13 July 2022: Zambia 1 (Chitundu 70′) Senegal 1 (N’Diaye 61′)Zambia received 4-2 on penalties
ZAMBIA – KEY FACTS:
Drew 2-2 with hosts Morocco of their opening match. Barbra Banda’s objective after simply 58 seconds was the second-fastest in WAFCON historical past, and the quickest ever by a Zambian participant. Stay unbeaten of their final 5 group stage matches (W2 D3), a run that started in 2022. Ought to they keep away from defeat, Zambia will go unbeaten of their opening two matches for the second consecutive event (2022: 0-0 vs Cameroon, 1-0 vs Tunisia). Zambia’s file in second group matches: P3 W1 L2. Their solely win got here in 2022 (1-0 vs Tunisia); earlier defeats had been heavy losses to Nigeria in 2014 (6-0) and 2018 (4-0). Barbra Banda has now scored in 4 main tournaments for Zambia: two Olympic Video games, the 2023 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup, and WAFCON. Racheal Kundananji, who scored Zambia’s second objective in opposition to Morocco, now has 4 WAFCON targets, together with three from 2018. Zambia had six photographs heading in the right direction in opposition to Morocco – Kundananji tried three of them. Regardless of the draw, Zambia accomplished solely 126 passes in comparison with Morocco’s 358 and held simply 31% possession.
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SENEGAL – KEY FACTS:
Opened their marketing campaign with a dominant 4-0 win over DR Congo – their biggest-ever win on the finals. All 4 targets had been scored within the first half – the primary time Senegal have netted a number of targets in a half at WAFCON. They’ve now received their opening recreation in back-to-back tournaments, having overwhelmed Uganda 2-0 in 2022. Their file in second group matches: P2 W1 L1. They misplaced 1-0 to South Africa in 2012 and beat Burkina Faso 1-0 in 2022 – each video games ended with a single objective. Towards DR Congo, that they had eight photographs heading in the right direction (six within the first half). Mama Diop and Nguenar N’Diaye every scored twice. Diop had three photographs heading in the right direction, whereas N’Diaye transformed each of hers. N’Diaye is the primary Senegalese participant to attain in two WAFCON editions. A objective for both Diop or N’Diaye would make them the primary Senegalese gamers to attain in consecutive matches on the finals. If Senegal win and maintain a clear sheet, they may begin the event with back-to-back wins and shutouts for the second time in a row (2022: 2-0 vs Uganda, 1-0 vs Tunisia). Adama Sane had a game-high 70 touches within the win over DR Congo. Senegal have already equaled their whole objective tally from all the 2022 event (4 targets).
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