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\nTanzania Daily News<\/a> (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam)\n<\/p>\n

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Zena Chande<\/p>\n

21 March 2011<\/p>\n

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SIMBA coach Patrick Phiri believes that they can get the better of holders TP Mazembe in the return leg and qualify to the final qualifying round for the lucrative group phase of the African Champions.<\/p>\n

The Mainland champions conceded a 3-1 first-leg defeat at TP Mazembe on Sunday and cling to slim hopes to progress into the next round of the premier continental club competition as they need at least two clear goals in the return leg to go through.<\/p>\n

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Phiri summed up Simba’s task fairly succinctly, saying all they have to do is to win, “They won here. Why can’t we win there? With all due respect for this great team, we can make it happen. I hope we will make it, this is not the worst result and we can overturn it,” said Phiri who flew back to his homeland Zambia for short break after Sunday’s match.<\/p>\n

Simba chairman Ismail Aden Rage commended his team’s performance despite the defeat and oozed confidence they can topple the Congolese giants when the two do clash in the return leg in Dar es Salaam in a fortnight.<\/p>\n

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“They’re still not a very good team like we thought they’d be, we can beat them at home because we have the qualities, and if we can play with our potential, there is a big chance that we can win the return game,” said Rage. Striker Musa Hassan ‘Mgosi’, on his side, says with the right preparations Simba can progress to next round.<\/p>\n

“Mazembe are strong team but not invincible, if we can correct our mistakes and play at our best there is a chance that we can win against them in the return match,” Mgosi said. TP Mazembe’s Senegal-born coach Lamine Ndiaye admitted that Simba’s performance had shocked him and predicted a tough second leg.<\/p>\n

“We have won but we played against a very good team. They played very well and took the game to us especially in the second half. You could see that after scoring their goal they upped pressure but we held on. “We know the away game is going to be complicated for us, but we have a good chance after this win,” Ndiaye said.<\/p>\n

Mazembe, the 2010 Fifa Club World Cup runners-up led 2-0 at half-time in southern Congolese mining city Lubumbashi and increased their advantage minutes after the hour mark.<\/p>\n

However, thousands of Simba supporters who had travelled by bus and car to Lubumbashi finally got something to cheer when Ugandan Emmanuel Okwi pulled one goal back 14 minutes from full-time.<\/p>\n

It is the goal that offers Patrick Phiri and Simba supporters a little hope ahead of the return game in Dar es Salaam early next month. Mazembe stars have looked weary lately in the colours of the club and the national team as non-stop action over several years takes its toll and Sunday’s performance against a depleted Simba said it all.<\/p>\n

Phiri’s side, were without several first team players including Ugandan stopper Joseph Owino, influential midfielders Hilary Echesa and Mohamed Banka, as well as attacking midfielder Uhuru Selemani.<\/p>\n

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