Red Arrows midfielder Godfrey Ngwenya is under no illusion that his team will have it easy when they visit Lubumbashi for the second leg of the Champions League pre-group stage against TP Mazembe on Saturday.
In Ngwenya’s own words, Arrows have a mountain to club at the weekend. The Chisi Mbewe side needs to overturn a 2–0 deficit to progress to the lucrative group stage of the competition.
Arrows did not make things any easier for themselves when they allowed Mazembe to score two past them in a home encounter at the Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola last weekend.
Now, the Zambian champions have to do something that a Zambian club has not done in the last five occasions: beat TP Mazembe, who has dominated in fixtures against Zambian opposition.
Mazembe has an enviable record of three wins and two draws in the last five competitive meetings against a team from Zambia.
Perhaps it is these statistics that have Ngwenya conceding that it is not going to be easy.
Writing to his followers on X, the former Power Dynamos midfielder stated, “A urge [huge] mountain to climb, nothing is impossible to them that believe.”
No Zambian team has made it to the group stage of either the Champions League or the Confederation Cup since Zanaco in the 2021/22 season when they reached the quarterfinals.
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