DAKIKA 90 ZIMEISHA ZANZIBAR 2-1 DHIDI YA RWANDA.

Zanzibar humbled Rwanda 2-1 as last year's runners-up suffered their first defeat of the 2012 Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup in the Ugandan capital Kampala.

Wakicheza kwenye dimba lenye pitch za kutereza mara baada ya mvua kubwa kunyesha, timu ya Zanzibar walionekana kuchukulia poa na wakiwa fresh zaidi juu ya hali hiyo ya hewa na walihitaji dakika nane tu kuzungumza na nyavu za wana wa Amavubi kwani makosa ya golikipa Jean Claude Ndoli yalimzawadia Khamis Mcha Khamis kuipa Zanzibar bao la kwanza la uzinduzi kuelekea ushindi.

Khamis grabbed his second when finishing off Kassim Sulyeman's curving pass as a Rwanda side that had poured on the pressure suffered from a communication lapse in defence.

Late on, Dady Birori pulled one back for Rwanda with a well-taken header from a Haruna Niyonzima cross but it was too little too late.

After two rounds of matches, Zanzibar are unexpected Group C leaders with four points, while second-place Rwanda boast three - the same asMalawi, who narrowly beat Eritrea 3-2 earlier in the day.

"My boys failed to master how to play on a wet pitch and also made some terrible mistakes," said Rwanda's Serb coach Sredejovic Micho. "But we shall fight back in our last group game."

Meanwhile, Zanzibar coach Salum Nassor was an understandably delighted man after the encounter.

"Beating Rwanda has always proved difficult for us, but we have done it today," he said.

Zanzibar's victory throws the group open but Malawi know they will qualify for certain with victory in their final group game against the islanders on Monday.

Kinnah Phiri is a man under pressure after Malawi minister of sports Enock Chihana warned that the Flames coach faces the axe should he fail to reach the quarter-finals.

"We have given them enough time to prepare and this is the tournament where they have to show that indeed they can do something," he said.

"In other matches they had excuses which we could understand but not Cecafa.

"If they qualify for the quarter-finals, it's completely a different matter. If they don't, it means my ministry, the council for sports and Football Association will sit down and make a decision," Chihana added.

Malawi beat Eritrea thanks to a brace from Chiukepo Msowoya and a strike from Miciam Mhone, with the hungry Eritreans piling on late pressure through Yosief Ghide and a Hermon Tecleab penalty.

"I am very bitter with my players for giving the opponents space to score such goals," Phiri said afterwards. "This is a game we should have won comfortably, but we ended up struggling."

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