Windhoek — A defensive lapse late in the second half denied a gutsy Namibian senior football team, the Brave Warriors, a rare and well-deserved morale boosting away-win in Gambia on Friday.
Going into their penultimate 2018 Africa FIFA World Cup preliminary qualifier against the Gambian Scorpions on the back of two consecutive defeats in the qualifiers - that left their chances hanging on a thread - the Namibians needed victory at all costs to have any mathematical chance of sneaking in through the backdoor in the hope other results would go their way.
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