A youthful Bafana Bafana competing at the Cosafa Cup defeated a 10-man Botswana 2-1 to win the Plate final at Sugar Ray Xulu Stadium in Durban on Sunday morning.
But Mashigo’s debut for Bafana — where Mkhalele substituted him five minutes before the halftime break and brought in Rasebotja, also replacing left-back Cele with the impressive Siyanda Msani — ended in disappointment.
The first half was a bruising battle as Botswana were often blown up for their tough and sometimes dangerous tackles on the South Africans. The match produced an opener for Bafana in a fortuitous manner. A Botswana defender tried to clear the ball inside the box, but it hit Van Wyk and ricocheted past the Zebras goalie Goitseone Phoko.
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