Stuart Baxter offered several excuses after Bafana Bafana’s defeat to Senegal in Dakar on Tuesday and blamed his delayed appointment to the coaching seat as the reason for the national team’s failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. Senegal beat Bafana 2-1 to condemn Baxter’s team to bottom of their group with four points from six matches. The Senegalese won the group, while Burkina Faso and modest Cape Verde finished second and third. "Looking back, it has been a difficult campaign‚" Baxter said. "When I came in, it was last-minute and the campaign was under way. "The coaches that were here before did things in different ways and it takes time before you get your ideas across to the players," he said. "The fact that we had confusion surrounding the Senegal replay didn’t help in terms of the mental part of the game. "Most of all‚ it has been a question of not taking our chances and turning over goals at vital times." Bafana beat Senegal 2-1 in Polokwane in November 2016, but the r...
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