Bafana Bafana vs Benin: LINE-UP ANNOUNCED

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Bafana Bafana, sitting top of Group C after Friday’s win over Lesotho, are less than an hour away from their top-of-the-table showdown with Benin.

Both sides find themselves in uncharted territory as Nigeria continues to drop points. Benin have never qualified for a World Cup, while South Africa’s last appearance on football’s biggest stage came fifteen years ago.

Get three points tonight and Bafana Bafana will gain a healthy cushion against the rest of the pack and have one foot in the America’s.

Official starting eleven

Ronwen Williams
Nkosinathi Sibisi
Siyabonga Ngezana
Khuliso Mudau
Fawaaz Basadien
Jayden Adams
Teboho Mokoena
Relebohile Mofokeng
Lyle Foster
Percy Tau
Elias Mokwana

Broos displeased

Broos is outraged by Bafana Bafana’s inability to train at the stadium in preparation for tonight’s game, saying, “First of all, I have to tell you that I’m really not satisfied with the decision that we can’t have a pre-match training in the stadium where the game takes place,

“I think this is a FIFA rule, that every team has the right to have a preliminary training before the game of 60 minutes in the stadium where you play, where the match takes place,” the Bafana coach added.

“I don’t understand. I understand it because there is another game. But this is bad when people who make the rules don’t follow the rules. Will that have an influence on the game? I don’t know. But I know if tomorrow after the game I’m not at the press conference, there will be a sanction. So we have to follow the rules. Where are the rules now? And you will tell me, yes, that’s for both teams. I don’t think so. I think Berlin has already trained in that stadium because they were here before us.

“So it’s all nice to say, follow the rules, follow this. We have to follow everything. But we have the right to train today in the stadium where the match takes place, and we can’t. And this is not honest and this is not correct.”