"WE MISSED OUR PLAN FOR THE GAME" - MPINGANJIRA

Malawi Under 20 head coach, Bob Mpinganjira, says his team failed to play according to what they planned to play against South Africa and that led to concede a lot of goals in the match.

He said this after team's 5-0 defeat in the hands of South Africa in their COSAFA Youth Championship opener in Mozambique on Friday.

He said, "We first congratulate South Africa for their win, we did not play according to our plan, we gave away many balls on the midfield mostly in the first half and conceded silly goals that could have been defended."

He further said he hopes for an improvement in their next match as they tried to create some chances in the game but failed to score and will talk to the boys on areas of improvement.

Following the heavy defeat, the Junior Flames will anchor the Group C with no point while South Africa and Comoros lead with 3 points and Lesotho has also no point on third.