Four Malawian players namely, Mwisho Mhango, Misheck Biliati, Madalitso Safuli and Precious Manjawira have been all included in the best XI of the COSAFA Youth Championship.

The Junior Flames finished second after suffering a 3-0 defeat over South Africa in the final.

Mhango delivers as Junior Flames stun Zambia to reach COSAFA final

Deadly forward, Mwisho Mhango, scored two more goals to inspire Malawi Under 20 into the final of the COSAFA Youth Championship after beating beating Zambia Under 20 2-1 in Namibia on Friday afternoon.

The Junior Flames were already ahead after Mhango beat three players before finding the back of the net with a powerful shot with just three minutes of the clock but Billy Daka headed home on 40th minute to level the scores going to break.

In the second half, Malawi started well as well as they kept on knocking but Zambia remained solid until being pressurised just after the hour mark and Mhango scored a beauty from a free kick on 69th minute to seal the victory.

After the game, Millias Pofera Jegwe was happy with the win saying he told his boys to fight hard and they got a result they wanted from the game.

"It was a tough match and we knew it would be that but we fought hard so that we claim a win, we missed one of

"We are going to finish it in the 90 minutes" - Jegwe

Malawi Under 20 National Football team head coach, Millias Pofera Jegwe, said his team is looking to end Zambia's dominance over Malawi as they plan to finish the game in 90 minutes to reach the final of the tournament.

He said this on Thursday ahead of the match against Zambia on Friday in the semi finals and said hie team has no pressure as they go into the match as underdogs.

"We are a team that are on a mission. We managed to break the 14-year jinx to qualify for the semi finals now we want to go for something big. Zambia is always tough to us but tomorrow we want to end that story." Said Jegwe.

He also said the team will use some players due to the injuries of other players but have not prepared for penalties as he believes the game won't reach that stage.

The team reached the semis after finishing top of the Group A with 7 points from two wins and one draw while Zambia finished second in Group B.

Two Malawian players, defender Precious Manjawira and forward Mwisho Mhango, are into COSAFA U-20 best XI of the Group Stages.

The two have helped the Junior Flames to reach the semi finals of the tournament after claiming two wins and one draw.

"IT WAS A TOUGH GAME" - MPINGANJIRA

Flames U-20 coach, Bob Mpinganjira, said he was not impressed with how his team performed despite beating Zimbabwe 3-2 in the Four Nations tournament opener at the Silver Stadium on Wednesday afternoon.

Mpinganjira said this in a Post-match interview to the media saying there were a lot of negatives which he needs to work out on them ahead of their crash against Kenya.

"It was a very tough game, we did not play very well especially in the first half we were second on the ball and too slow better in the second half, we improved and hence we got those two goals. We have just trained for two weeks so the fitness levels were too and we misplaced a lot of passes." Said Mpinganjira.

Malawi will play Kenya on Friday to conclude their matches in the tournament and so far they lead with three points taken from the Zimbabwe win.

Reported by Hastings Wadza Kasonga Jr