The captain is upbeat, as many players from the Mamelodi club have cut their teeth in tough continental campaigns
Bafana Bafana captain Ronwen Williams. Picture: BACKPAGEPIX/MUZI NTOMBELA
Mamelodi Sundowns make up the majority of the Bafana Bafana squad to face Liberia in the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, and their experience in continental competition could be crucial, SA captain Ronwen Williams says.Williams, who has excelled since joining Downs from SuperSport United in July, is one of eight Sundowns members of coach Hugo Broos’s squad for the matches at Orlando Stadium on Friday and Monrovia on Tuesday where four points will take SA to the Nations Cup.
They have reached the quarterfinals, topping Group B, including a 5-2 home thrashing of 10-time winners Al Ahly.Many of the Brazilians’ players have cut their teeth in multiple tough continental campaigns. It has long been thought Broos should base most of his squad on Sundowns, which the Belgian seemed reluctant to do early in his tenure, though he has since relented.
“We’ll speak to the [other] guys, [pass on] the experience we’ve picked up the last few months, the last few years some of them [from Sundowns], just to make things a bit easier and use it to our advantage.”With a front line that seems likely to include in-form attackers such as Orlando Pirates’s Monnapule Saleng, Mailula, Burnley’s Lyle Foster and Ahly’s Percy Tau, Williams said Bafana should score against the Lone Stars, so it is up to the defence to keep up their end.
We know we’ve got the firepower up front, with so many good attackers doing well in their respective leagues.“We’ve learnt from our mistakes, especially in the November camp where we had to analyse [our play].”Bafana and Liberia lost their opening games to Morocco — SA 2-1 in Rabat, and Liberia 2-0 at home in a game played in Morocco because their ground in Monrovia was deemed unsuitable.
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