With a number of his regular midfield starters out through an assortment of injuries‚ coach Stuart Baxter will have no option but to make key changes in the heart of his line-up when Bafana Bafana host Nigeria in a penultimate Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifier at FNB Stadium on Saturday. Kamohelo Mokotjo and Dean Furman‚ two players who started for Bafana in their last two qualifiers against Seychelles‚ are out injured and Baxter is likely to fill that area with the Mamelodi Sundowns duo of Hlompho Kekana and Tiyani Mabunda. Prodigal son Thulani Serero is set to be given the playmaker role after smoking the peace pipe with Baxter to end a self-imposed exile. Also likely to start in midfield is another Sundowns attacking midfielder‚ Themba Zwane‚ who missed the Seychelles games due to injury. “I have a choice to either put in Hlompho with Sugar [Mabunda] because they play together or I can try and go with one of the other two [Tebogo Mokoena and Fortune Makaringe]‚ who really a...
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