Botswana will be no easy prospect to face at all for Stuart Baxter’s young Bafana Bafana in their Cosafa Cup Plate final at Peter Mokaba Stadium on Friday (kickoff: 3pm). Coached by the experienced former Santos and Black Leopards boss and multiple times national coach, Major David Bright, Botswana have been one of the best teams at the competition for Southern African nations in Polokwane. Bright steered the Zebras convincingly through the group stage, beating Angola, drawing against Malawi, then recording the country’s biggest win, and the largest in 2018’s Cosafa, by 6-0 against Mauritius. Botswana are only in the Plate section because they lost on penalties to the favourites, full-strength Zimbabwe. And even if the Zebras were dominated in that quarterfinal, they displayed the organised defence and quickness up front that have made them one of the hardest teams to beat at the tournament. Even in their fifth game in eight days, notably tiring in the second half, Botswana managed ...
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