After all their noise and drama on unpaid allowances, Zimbabwe’s Warriors terribly embarrassed themselves and the country when it mattered most at the African Cup of Nations in Egypt on Sunday night.
The much fancied Warriors went down to hopeless Democratic Republic of Congo by an unexpected four goals to nil in their last group game and get automatic chop from the twenty four team tournament.
After a promising start going down by a goal to nil to Egypt, the Warriors completely collapsed in the very last match they should have won to proceed to the knockout stage of the tournament for the first time.
Goalkeeper Elvis Chipezeze was chief culprit to the Warriors debacle with three school boy blunders plus a poor goalkeeping tactic to gift the DRC with four goals and a probable passage to the next round.
Coach Sunday Chidzambwa will want to quickly forget the night after his first choice goalkeeper George Chigova got a hamstring injury just 15 minutes before kick off and had to replace him with an unprepared and shocked Chipezeze.
Chipezeze visibly looked unprepared for the match spilling a harmless looking first shot at him in the fourth minute to gift DRC their first goal.
The night got worse for the Polokwane City goalkeeper as he fumbled every ball that got to him.
Zimbabweans will want to quickly forget about this match and go on with their usual economic difficult daily life.
Watch match highlights below: