Bafana Bafana face a must-win clash in Liberia on Tuesday in their bid to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations finals in Ivory Coast next January, having let a crucial lead slip in the home fixture on Friday.
A victory for either side will put them through to the finals and eliminate the other from contention, making this a high stakes winners-takes-all contest.
We provide five reasons why Bafana will triumph.
THE BETTER SIDE
First and foremost, man-for-man they are the better team by some distance, as they showed for 70 minutes in the home game. They created chance after chance and might easily have led 5-0 at that point, a scoreline that would have flattered the visitors! But when they mentally switched off, that allowed Liberia back into the game and you would expect that won’t happen two games in a row.
PAST EXPERIENCE
Bafana Bafana have been
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