Zambia must stop Senegal strikers

Demba Cisse, Mamadou Niang and Dame N’Doye.
Ba has been a revelation at Newcastle United this season, scoring more English Premier League goals than Wayne Rooney and striking the volley that triggered a St James Park rout of Manchester United.
Magpies boss Alan Pardew raves about Ba the “versatile born winner” and has added Cisse, runner-up in the 2010-2011 Bundesliga scoring charts, to his squad during the January transfer window.
Sow made the top five in the 2011 African Footballer of the Year poll after being the leading French Ligue 1 marksman last season while helping Lille to a league-cup double.
Niang from Qatar-based Asian champions Al-Sadd grabbed the hat-trick that got the Senegalese qualifying campaign off to a winning start in the Democratic Republic of Congo. N’Doye is a consistent scorer, too, netting 25 in 31 matches as FC Copenhagen captured the Danish title, and leaving former national team player Traore with a selection headache rival coaches would gladly suffer. All the ‘hit men’ are desperate to impress the coach by scoring and Ba snatched the lone goal in a warm-up win over fellow qualifiers Sudan with Cisse doing likewise against Kenya in another Dakar friendly.
While Traore ponders his attacking options ahead of the late-evening showdown at the 35 000-seat Estadio de Bata, Zambia coach Herve Renard needs to solve a goal drought with leading striker Jacob Mulenga out of the Cup through injury.
Defender Stopilla Sunzu scored the only goal in a warm-up draw with South Africa “C” and it got worse with the Copper Bullets unable to breach Namibia in another Johannesburg fine-tuning exercise.
Kalusha Bwalya – national football association president, leading scorer at the 1996 Cup of Nations and a former African Footballer of the Year – insists Zambian supporters have no cause for concern.- AFP.