Chipolopolo boss Avram says his team does not want to keep making mistakes that have cost them in the past. The Copper Bullets will face off with the Taifa Stars on Wednesday in a 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier. Grant, who was speaking at a pre match press conference said despite not having enough time to prepare his team wants to win tomorrow in Zanzibar. Grant wants the Chipolopolo to win their last two games in the World Cup qualifiers and not worry about calculations for World Cup qualification. “As you know, the international window started yesterday and the game is tomorrow. We have players from Zambia, but also we have players from other places. They played two days ago, so they had a flight to arrive this morning. So we don’t have time to plan, but we want to win,” he said. “I don’t know if we don’t have a chance, but we have a chance to be second place. But we still need to win these two games, against Tanzania and against Niger. And we will do our best. We don’t think, we don’t calculate after. It’s part of the winning mentality. We did a good process in Zambia in the last two and a half years. We qualified two times to the Africa Cup. We had, I don’t like this word, but we had a little bit of bad luck in the qualification to the World Cup. We wanted to qualify for the first time in the history of Zambia. But I’m sure if we continue this process, Zambia will qualify for sure.” But for the moment, we have two tough games. We need to talk about these games, try to win. And then you can make any calculation that you want. I think in football, like in life, it’s part of the game. I can say it’s learning,” he added. Zambia lost to Tanzania in the reverse fixture but Grant believes his team were unlucky not to get anything out of the game after having 17 shots and failing to get a goal. Grant feels the mistake leading to the goal is one of the things his side needs to stop and not do ever again as they aim to turn around their dwindling fortunes. “We made mistakes, for sure. We made bad mistakes, if I can say. But we want to learn from this. We spoke about this. And I’m sure that we will not make these mistakes again. Because these were similar mistakes in the last two games like against Tanzania and we don’t want to do it again. But as you know, part of football is mistakes. Unfortunately, in the last game against Zambia, we made a very big mistake. It was 1-0, And then we had 17 attempts on the goal. We didn’t score and we lost the game. And Tanzania fought like crazy,” he said. Zambia plays the Taifa Stars tomorrow in a Group E FIFA World Cup qualifier in Zanzibar at the Amani Stadium. kick off is set for 21h00 CAT.
