Bafana Bafana are on a 16 match unbeaten run as they head into today’s world cup qualifiers game against the senior national team of Nigeria, OwnGoalNigeria.com.
They cruise through the AFCON qualifiers without losing a game and continued with that trend upon resumption for the world cup qualifiers, sandwiched between friendly game played in the off season international break.
The 3-0 win over Lesotho stretched the run to 16, and also help consolidate their position at the top of their group in the race to be at the 2026 World Cup, despite the threat of a potential three points, three goals deduction for fielding an ineligible player in the 2-0 win over Lesotho in March.
Although they were defeated by Nigeria in the semi final of the AFCON on penalties, but that wasn’t in open play. In open play the last defeat came against Mali at the same tournament and it was a 0-2 defeat.
Eric Chelle the present coach of the Nigerian team, was the man on the touchline for the Malians and will be hoping for a similar feat when he lead his boys out for the game today at the Toyota Stadium in Bloemfontein.
His result has strike fears into the mind of the fans of the club, and to a large extent the coach and players who are largely unchanged from the team that were defeated by Chelle.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
