Off the wire
• Leading goal scorers of French Ligue 1  • French Ligue 1 standings  • English Premier League standings  • French Ligue 1 results  • Congo hold hosts Equatorial Guinea 1-1 in Afcon opening match  • Snooker worlds to stay in Sheffield until 2017  • Kenya's lawn tennis office resigns over unexplained expenditure  • Australian in bid to save death row pair  • English Premier League results  • Australian dollar backs off from one-month high  
You are here: 　 Home

DR Congo fight back to hold Zambia in Group B Afcon tie

Xinhua, January 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Chipolopolo of Zambia started their 2015 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) with a draw against DR Congo on Sunday.

Given Singuluma scored an early goal in the second minute to give Zambia a 1-0 lead at the Ebibeyin Stadium. The TP Mazembe forward capitalized on a defensive lapse to shoot the ball past goalkeeper Robert Muteba Kidiaba.

But the DR Congo team fought back strongly attacking in numbers, only for Zambia s goalkeeper Kennedy Mweene to keep them in the game.

In the second half the DR Congo team who have won the Afcon title once piled more pressure and scored in the 66th minute through Yannick Yala Bolasie. The striker who plays for English Premier League side Crystal Palace unleashed a hard right footed shot that Mweene failed to stop.

Emmanuel Mayuka who plies his trade for Southampton in the English Premier League tried to fight back for Zambia with good runs, but to no avail.

Zambia who won the Afcon title in 2012 will now have to be at their best in the remaining two Group A games against Tunisia and Cape Verde Islands if they hope to make it to the later stages of the competition. Tunisia were meant to face Cape Verde in the second game of the group later on Sunday. Endi