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South Africa’s Coach Faces Injury Woes
South Africa’s Coach Stuart Baxter is having more headaches than relief as he prepares his team for a match that may determine his future handling of Bafana Bafana.
Reports that Sports Village Square gathered from South Africa indicate that he is faced with injury problems, three days into the camping exercise that began on Saturday.
The team is expected to leave for Nigeria on Wednesday. Sources in South Africa informed Village Sports Square that Bafana Bafana’s team doctor, Thulani Ngwenya told the coach on Monday that seven players arrived camp on Sunday with varying degrees of injuries that is given the coach sleepless night.
The injured players are: Lebogang Manyama with right knee injury, Andile Jali has right groin injury and Tiyani Mabunda who has ankle sprain. Also among the injured is Tokelo Rantie, the scorer of the two goals that prevented Nigeria from qualifying for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.
He is reported to be down with right toe bone contusion and right knee injury. The casualty list also include Aubrey Ngoma who has groin injury, Rivaldo Coetzee is down with hamstring injury and Eric Mathoho (concussion). All of them are in the sick bay.
The hopes of Libya securing a 2025 Africa Cup of Nations ticket seem to have gone up in smoke. This is the sequel to the 2-1 defeat that Rwanda inflicted on the Benin Republic on Tuesday evening.
With the result, Libya’s position is further cemented at the bottom of the table. Nigeria, even with an outstanding match, still leads with seven points.
They are followed by Benin Republic who have six points. Rwanda followed with five points.
The star men were Innocent Nshuti and Djihad Bizimana who scored in the space of two minutes as Rwanda came from behind to defeat Benin 2-1 at Amahoro Stadium on Tuesday, October 15.
Rwanda’s defeat of Benin Republic is not just their first win in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying series, the victory terminates a 12-year winless streak against the Cheetah of Benin.
It is also a renewal of their hopes of qualifying for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations. But they still have two more games to play.
The German made two changes from the side that started against Benin last week as Samuel Gueulette and Emmanuel Imanishimwe came in for Kevin Muhire and Claude Niyomugabo respectively.
The press release on Tuesday by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) may have lifted a burden off Nigeria as the match with Libya is considered postponed rather than the Super Eagles refusing to play.
The continental body remarked that the matter would be referred to the competent CAF bodies.
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