Stuart Baxter will name on Wednesday the Bafana Bafana squad to face Burkina Faso in a 2018 World Cup qualifier and will be under pressure to make changes after his misfiring side saw their Russian dreams going up in smoke with back-to-back losses to Cape Verde. Their cause has not been helped by Fifa’s decision to have them replay their controversial qualifier against Senegal from November 2016, which Bafana Bafana — aided by cheating Ghana referee Joseph Lamptey — won 2-1. They now need to win all three remaining qualifiers — home to the Burkinabe on October 7 and home and away to Senegal in November — to have any hope of making the global showpiece competition. Baxter is set to recall Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune after the experienced gloveman missed the Cape Verde disaster through injury. His replacements‚ Ronwen Williams and Wayne Sandilands‚ failed to impress. Perhaps Baxter’s biggest mistake in the matches against Cape Verde was that it appeared he selected on rep...
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