“Robbed” South Africa are set to make a “formal complaint” about “questionable decisions” made by the match officials in Sunday’s 1-0 defeat by Ghana, says their football association chief.
Bafana Bafana needed a draw to reach the third and final round of African qualifying for the 2022 World Cup, but Ghana won with a controversial penalty.
“The match officials have decided the game, which is not what is supposed to happen,” claimed South Africa Football Association’s (Safa) chief executive Tebogo Mothlante.
“We will be writing to both Caf [the Confederation of African Football] and [world governing body] Fifa – firstly to investigate how the game was handled and secondly to challenge some of these decisions.
“We have already registered with the match commissioner that we will be making a formal complaint.”
The Black Stars’ narrow win enabled them to reach the African World Cup play-offs by the narrowest of margins,
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