A late Patson Daka header rescued a 1-1 draw for 10-man Zambia towards Tanzania on Sunday to disclaim the Taifa Stars a primary ever TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations win.The Taifa Stars took a deserved first-half lead by Simon Msuva’s Eleventh-minute strike assisted by Mbwana Samatta.
However Zambia’s activity grew more durable when captain Roderick Kabwe obtained a second yellow card simply earlier than the break to go away them a person down.
Regardless of their numerical drawback, Chipolopolo fought again valiantly in San-Pedro as Patson Daka went shut after the restart.
And the Leicester striker lastly made his mark by heading within the 88th-minute equaliser with an inch-perfect nook from Clatous Chama.
The late twist means Tanzania are nonetheless trying to find an elusive first AFCON victory after eight makes an attempt.
The draw leaves Tanzania backside of Group F forward of their remaining sport with DR Congo whereas Zambia keep third.
Zambia possible require victory over Morocco on Tuesday to progress to the knockouts after this dramatic stalemate.
MATCH FACTS:
● Zambia haven’t gained any of their final eight group stage video games on the CAF Africa Cup of Nations (D7 L1 – in 2013, 2015 and this 12 months), after profitable three of their earlier 4 such encounters within the competitors (D1).
● Tanzania have registered an Anticipated Aim worth of solely 0.21 towards Zambia right now, the third lowest tally in the identical 2023 CAF Africa Cup of Nations sport, behind… Zambia v Congo DR (0.20) and Tanzania themselves towards Morocco (0.03).
● Simon Msuva has scored two of Tanzania’s final three targets on the CAF Africa Cup of Nations (v Kenya in June 2019 and v Zambia right now). The ahead is the primary Tanzanian participant to search out the web in numerous AFCON editions (1 objective in 2019, 1 objective this 12 months).
● Patson Daka has turn into the primary participant from Zambia to attain a objective (right now v Tanzania) and ship an help (on 17 January v Congo DR) on the identical CAF Africa Cup of Nations version since Christopher Katongo (3 targets, 1 help), Rainford Kalaba (1 objective, 2 assists) and Stoppila Sunzu (additionally 1 objective, 1 help) in 2012.
● Simon Msuva and Mbwana Samatta have been concerned in Tanzania’s final three targets scored on the Africa Cup of Nations, between 2019 (1 objective for Msuva, 1 objective for Samatta) and this 12 months’s version (additionally 1 objective for Msuva, 1 help for Samatta).
● Roderick Kabwe has conceded the primary purple card for Zambia on the CAF Africa Cup of Nations since Opta started to gather these information (2010). Zambia and Tanzania are two of the 4 groups which have obtained a purple card at this AFCON 2023 (with Gambia and Guinea).
