Gv of the Action during the 2024 CAF Womens Champions League COSAFA Qualifiers Herentals Queens training session at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre on 14 August 2024 ©Samuel Shivambu/BackpagePix
Herentals Queens coach Lazarus Magaya is bullish ahead of their CAF Champions League COSAFA Qualifiers semi-finals clash against Botswana’s Gaborone United Ladies scheduled for Thursday at Mpira Stadium in Malawi.
The Female Students are enjoying a good run at the tournament where they finished top in Group A with six points, losing one match against South Africa’s University of Western Cape who are playing Young Buffaloes from Eswatini in the other semi-final clash.
Although his team is marking its debut at the tournament, Herentals coach Lazarus Magaya is confident it will make it to the final.
“Usually they say when a debutante plays in the semi-finals, it goes all the way to take it.
“So we are preparing very well, yesterday we had our regeneration exercises, so we are going to top up,” said the coach on the sidelines of his team’s training session on Wednesday.
He added that his team is now taking a new trajectory in the knockout stage compared to how they were operating in the group games.
“From now everything has to change, in the group stages points are what we were looking for and now winning matters.
“So the approach, the training, the tactic and everything including the formation has to change,” he added.
The winner of the ongoing ten-day tournament which ends on Saturday will join defending champions Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies from South Africa and other teams from the other regions in the CAF Champions League finals scheduled for later this year.
Herentals Queens becomes the second team from Zimbabwe to play in the prestigious tournament, Black Rhinos Queens being the first when they participated in the inaugural edition in 2021.
