Chipolopolo of
Zambia coach
Herve Renard
has rated group
C Africa Cup of Nations top rival,the Super
Eagles of Nigeria as very
ordinary adding that the
current team being put
together by Stephen Keshi do
not impress him. Defending champions Zambia
take on Nigeria on January 25
in Nelspruit and Renard has
been quick to say he has not
been impressed with the
Eagles under Keshi after he watched them labour to a 0-0
draw with Cape Verde on
Wednesday. "I think you saw Nigeria the
other day against Cape Verde.
Do you think it was the best
this time?" Renard said.
"I don’t think so." The two sides are set for an
early Africa Cup of Nations
showdown in their
penultimate Group C match on
January 25 at the Mbombela
Stadium in Nelspruit. And Renard reiterated that he
was also itching for payback
time against the Eagles after
the latter ejected them in the
2010 quarterfinals. "So on January 25 against
Nigeria, it will be a different
game, it will be a tough
game," the Frenchman said.
"But I can assure you we
want to finish top of our group like in 2010 and 2012.
It’s not easy, but we want go
as far as possible because this
team has fantastic team
spirit." Meanwhile with less than a
week to the start of the
African soccer
showpiece,Renard has assured
the football fraternity that
the African champions will not suffer an early exit from
the 29th continental edition. Renard said despite a poor
build-up to Africa’s premier
football showcase, Zambia
would not surrender the
AFCON title easily but
promised to do the best for the nation. ‘‘This is my fourth AFCON
final. We’ll do our best. We are
not Ivory Coast neither
Ghana. Why do you think we
are here? To give up in the
first round? ,’’ Renard said in Johannesburg where his team
is shaping up for the AFCON
title defence. The Frenchman also said the
Chipolopolo, who won the
2012 championship in Gabon,
should be judged according to
the performance at this year’s
AFCON finals and not from preparatory matches. On winning the opening
match against Ethiopia, the
African Coach of the Year said
it was important for his team
to start the title defence on a
good note. "Ethiopia is a good team and
we have a lot of respect for
them because they have a lot
of skilled players. They drew
away to South Africa in the
2014 Fifa World Cup qualifiers and they qualified for the
Africa Cup of Nations finals
tournament after they
defeated Sudan." "Physically we are ready for
any team. Tactically and
technically we need to find a
winning formula. We need to
learn how to finish in front of
goal and how to finish off the game. "In 2010 were drew our first
match against Tunisia and we
went on to finish top of the
group. In 2012 we had a good
result in our opening match
against Senegal and that gave us a lot of confidence and we
also finished top of our
group."

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The man judged Nigeria by the Cape Verde game yet he doesnt want to be judged by the friendlies Zambia played.

Till then, fifa be ready to accuse nigeria for match fixing.

Empty vessel makes the most noice...