COSAFA Cup Bafana Bafana head coach Morena Ramoreboli says he expected his players to have "rustiness" in their opening game of the COSAFA Cup.
Bafana opened their COSAFA Cup tournament with a 1-1 draw against Namibia, after they came from behind to equalise just after the interval courtesy of Rowan Human.
Ramoreboli says their biggest challenge was breaking down the low block of the Brave Warriors but they looked better after they made a quadruple change at half-time.
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"Ja, I think it's always difficult to play against a low block, they were giving us space, time on the ball but they knew which areas to block, so every time we wanted to play those forward passes I think it was always difficult," Ramoreboli told SuperSport after the game.
"Because they formed a block in front of their two centre-backs, so you will always find it difficult to connect with [Victor] Letsoalo. Bringing in two strikers I think we looked better because we started to stretch the centre-backs and now force the full backs to be worried about the space between the centre-back and the full-back.
"And that's when we started to play more through the central corridor but honestly speaking I think our performance was not that consistent.
"We created a couple of chances but obviously it's the first match, I was expecting this, a bit of rustiness. Some of these guys are playing football after maybe three months or so.
"But I'm happy with a point, we'll go back, prepare for the next match and do our level best to make sure that we get maximum points in the next match. It's gonna be another difficult one."
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