Following his side’s 2-1 loss to Ghana, Bafana Bafana head coach, Shakes Mashaba, says his side needs the ability to kill off games.
Bafana took the lead in all three of their group games and failed to win none of them and ‘Shakes’ believes his side sat back too deep in the loss to the Black Stars.
“I think we gave it away again, for us to come out, score a goal and we couldn’t consolidate,” Mashaba said after the game.
“In the first half after we scored, we took the game to them, that’s why they couldn’t come, the biggest fall came out in the first 10 minutes of the second half, everybody went to sit back, all nine players sitting, we tried to push them up, we made changes, it didn’t work out.”
Mashba added that Bafana did not need to rush things when they went ahead.
“I think we need to go back to our basics of playing football, knowing when to do things, how to do things, and where to do them.”
“You need that ability to kill a game, that is one of the things I am talking about when we I talk about the basics,” Mashaba added.
“Why rush when you’re one goal up, buy time, at that time you could have seen they were on a high, what should have was to kill the game, but we were knocking it back to them and they came at us and that’s where the problem was.”
Source: Soccer Laduma
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