Malawi’s chances of making it to the semifinals of the Beach Africa Cup of Nations finals suffered a big blow after suffering a second defeat following a 6-1 loss to defending champions Senegal at the Hurgada Beach Soccer Arena on Monday.
Malawi, who are bottom of group B without a point, must beat Mauritania with a huge margin and hope that Mozambique beat Senegal in the group’s last matches on Tuesday to stand a chance of sneaking into the knockout phases.
The Senegalese came full throttle in the match and pressed Malawi hard and led 1-0 at the end of the first period.
They then scored four goals in the second period to make it 5-0.
Straight from the third period kick-off the defending champions scored their sixth before Dala Simba scored the consolation for Malawi in the fifth minute.
“We struggled because we lacked coordination the entire match. We lost our game plan and that is why we were punished.
“We played an experienced team who wanted it more and they got the result. It’s no longer in our hands to make it to the semifinals as we will rely on other matches. But we have to work hard in the last game and who knows we can still sneak in.
” This is our second time at AFCON and having failed to get past the group stages in 2022 we are supposed to get into the semifinal to show that we are improving. Qualification for AFCON alone is not enough we need to come here and compete,” said Malawi Coach willy Kumilambe.
Line-Up
Malawi:Justin Bonongwe,Isaac Kajamu,Dala Simba Dala,O’Brien Nkhumbula,Sandram Sadi
