Good Sun Day!
A good Sunday morning today, the last of the normal days. So enjoy it, tomorrow is back to abnormality.
And after such a good win from our boys yesterday can't imagine what you guys got up to. A few head aches here and there probably. But all for the greater good of human kind.
Lets start with the MYTH. As it goes, here in South Africa, there's a general believe that "No two national teams, playing on the same day both all win". People this is exactly what it is, a MYTH. If there's anyone out there who has contact with those guys from Myth Busters, please ask them to come and de-bunk this one fro us. It might be just our of their league to de-bunk this one.
But seriously, this does happen a lot, that one of the the national teams playing loses. I only remember once that both Bafana and the Boks won playing on the same day. I suppose this weekend wasn't meant to be with the Boks giving away a penalty in the dying minutes of the game and of course losing the Game and the Nelson Mandela Plate. They should go and apologies to Madiba...
All of that meant all the conditions were put in place for a Bafana win, and OH BOY!!! did they win.....13-2. No child's play. And in case you are wondering if I was watching the same game as you, the answer is a resounding YES...yes in bold and italics.
You would have put much of your emphasis on the scoreline, 2-0 thank you. For me there was also the shots at goal on target. And we trumped them 13 -2. Obviously this also indicates how badly we didn't convert our chances. Granted, we could have done better there. But we won 13-2 to Bafana.....am I allowed to gloat?
Gloating anyway.....2-0 to Bafana Bafana.
This is what sports is about, each time you win you get a chance to do just that, GLOATING. Seriously, it is not often we see Bafana Bafana create so many chances and yesterday they did, bucket load of them. You can hop on line that it was only Niger, BUT we can only beat whats in front of us and also to use and old cliché, "a win is a win is a win". Importantly for me the creation of so many chance is a crucial step in the right direction. Pitso noted that we didn't convert many of our chances in his post match interview. And surely they will work on that.
Mphela's first goal was staff of legends. Steven Pienaar put in a massive tackle just in front of the center line, won the ball cleanly and threaded in a sweet pass to Katlego Mphela, he in turn took it well with his first touch looked up a bit and left the goalkeeper to commit himself. He then delightfully chipped the ball over the keeper. Tell me how often you see that in South African football, if ever? One nil to Bafana and just before the break a second arrive. Good work on the right side by Anele Ngcongca, put in a powerful cross and finished brilliantly by Parker with his first time shot.
Otherwise, it was also great to see the support at the stadium. Mpumalanga showed the do only great support. A few empty seats, but generally they were in good voice.
A few shock result with some of the qualifiers, Angola were given a 3-0 drubbing by Uganda. Just a comment on the pitch here, and this is why it will be important for Bafana Bafana to win all their home games, that pitch was in a bad state. It could well have rained prior to the game, but that does not excuse the state of that pitch. If Angola used this as their excuse, I would not be surprised at all.
A good win for our neighbours Botswana, 2-1 against Togo. Botswana seems to have turned a corner with their football. And for me Tanzania getting a draw away to Algeria was equally a shocking results, 1-1. The rest of the result were as expect really.
From the Birds point of view, our boy Keegan Ritchie didn't get a game, and this is not a complaint. It will take an extra-ordinary effort to displace Tshepo Masilela from his left back position. But, Keegan would have learned a thing or two from his outing with the boys. Welcome back to the nest Keegan.
And that is it from me today...enjoy the rest of you Sunday.
Cheers and see you soon.
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