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Napsa Stars suffered a heavy league defeat on Thursday as Week 20 continued to be a forgettable one for Zambia’s two continental envoys.
The result came as Napsa prepared for next Wednesdays CAF Confederation Cup Group B opener away in Morocco with a 3-1 away loss at promoted Young Green Eagles in Kafue.
The defeat came 24 hours after Nkana were stunned 2-0 at home by Kabwe Warriors as they began to park their bags for their Group D opener away in Egypt on Wednesday against Pyramids.
Jack Ngulube, Damiano Kola and Isaac Ngoma scored for Young Eagles in the 31st, 56th and 65th minutes respectively to ensure they stayed unbeaten in their four home games played so far in 2021.
Napsa today finished 0-0 away to Kitwe United at Garden Park.
The result sees the Lusaka side exhaust its four outstanding matches with three draws and one defeat.
Overall, Napsa have now collected five draws and two defeats since they beat Prison Leopards 2-1 at home in Lusaka on January 10.
Despite the draw, Napsa crawl one notch up to the top four of the relegation zone to number 15 on as many points and games played.
Napsa host Nkwazi this Sunday in their last game before heading to Nairobi for their Valentines Day date against Gor Mahia of Kenya in a CAF Confederation Cup pre-group stage first leg match on February 13.
Nkana coach Kelvin Kaindu say Sunday’s 4-0 home win over Young Green Eagles have given them confidence heading into Wednesday’s tricky trip to Nkwazi.
The defending FAZ Super Division champions beat fellow strugglers Young Eagles 4-0 at Nkana Stadium in Kitwe to collect their biggest win of the season and also ended a two-match losing run.
Nkana now face stubborn 10th placed Nkwazi who beat fourth placed Zesco United 2-1 in Ndola, and also beat the latter’s neighbours Buildcon 1-0 and held leaders Zanaco 1-1 in their away Lusaka derby.
“Tricky encounter, but I think we go into this fixture with a bit of confidence. I think we haven’t been consistent in term of play before Sunday and we also managed to keep a clean sheet which has always been our biggest problem,”Kaindu said.
Red Arrows recovery continued on Saturday when they beat hosts Buildcon to collect their second straight league win.
Arrows beat Buildcon 2-1 at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola to hand the early season pacesetters their third straight defeat of the season.
Francis Simwanza struck a left-footed shot in the 20th minute to put Arrows ahead.
But four minutes later, Chipolopolo striker Brian Mwila headed-in the equalizer off a Shadreck Musonda cross in his first match back after three quiet seasons in Europe.
However, veteran striker James Chamanga refused to be eclipsed and struck in the 33rd minute when he powered he was way through two Buildcon defenders before beating goalkeeper Benson Mwale.