Zambia And Senegal Go Head To Head In Tough Battle In Fight To Qualify For World Cup

• Zambia will face Senegal on Wednesday evening, 13 July, in the quarterfinal of the 2022 African Women Nations Cup
• The Copper Queens qualified for the last eight after defeating Togo 4-1 in their final Group B fixture in Casablanca
• These two nations will want to win this encounter which will guarantee them a place in the FIFA World Cup

Zambia and Senegal female senior national teams will on Wednesday evening, 13 July, go head to head in the quarterfinal of the ongoing African Women Cup of Nations in Morocco.

The competition has gotten to the stage where girls will be separated from women as all the nations who qualified for the quarterfinals will want to reach the last four of the competition.

The four teams that qualify for the semifinal of the 2022 AWCON will automatically pick Africa's ticket to play at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

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And according to the report on CAF Online, Mame Moussa Cisse who is the gaffer of Senegal explained that his wards will take the game serious so as for them to qualify for the World Cup.

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“No speech can motivate more than the stakes of this match, a place in the last four of this competition, but above all qualification for the World Cup. This generation can be a pioneer in Senegal, and change the course of the history of women's football in the country.''

Meanwhile, these two nations have never qualified for the Women's World Cup in their history and one of them will make history later on Wednesday, 13 July.

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Earlier, Sports Brief had reported how Star Banyana Banyana striker Thembi Kgatlana will miss the rest of the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations tournament in Morocco.

She was carried off in a stretcher during South Africa's 1-0 victory against Botswana last night.

The 26-year-old Kgatlana stepped awkwardly during the second half, with this injury later confirmed to be a ruptured Achilles tendon.

Complete recovery from such an injury can take anything between six and 12 months. Banyana went into the tournament as outright favourites, and have played like it, too.

They accounted for eternal rivals, multiple and defending champions Nigeria 2-1 in their opening Group C encounter last week Monday.