Liberia coach Ansumana Keita's vow to 'make SA suffer' has raised the hackles of 1996 Africa Cup of Nations winning Bafana captain Neil Tovey, who says that kind of talk is the perfect motivation for the South Africans before their qualifier on Tuesday.
Keita was, naturally, in a buoyant mood on Friday when speaking to the media after his charges came from two goals behind to earn a well-deserved 2-2 draw to silence the home crowd at Orlando Stadium.and that their home fans would make it an uncomfortable experience for the South Africans in the return leg on Tuesday at the 22 000-seater Samuel Kanyon Doe Stadium in Monrovia.
A defeat to a team ranked 150th in world football, compared to Bafana who is ranked 67th, will signal the end of another disappointing Afcon qualification campaign for South Africa, as they failed to make the cut for the 2021 edition. The former Kaizer Chiefs centre-back urged the Bafana players to use what Keita said as motivation and let his words be the fuel to their fire in the highly anticipated return fixture on Tuesday.
"We can win away from home, and now you're just giving them even more incentive [to do it]. We can definitely win the game there."Tovey captained coach Clive Barker's class of '96 in Bafana's only Afcon triumph, and the national team has been chasing shadows ever since. Bafana last qualified for the 2019 Afcon when they made it to the quarter-finals under then coach Stuart Baxter, before being knocked out by Nigeria.
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