AFCON QUALIFIER
Mothiba and Tau to terrorise Super Eagles in Afcon qualifier
Their recent nemesis‚ Tokelo Rantie‚ might be missing from the Bafana Bafana squad‚ but Nigeria will be introduced to the Lebo Mothiba and Percy Tau strike partnership in Saturday’s Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifier. Bafana coach Stuart Baxter has said that if the Super Eagles do not know the Mothiba-Tau partnership yet‚ they will have done so at 5pm at FNB Stadium (kick-off 3pm) on Saturday. Rantie‚ not called up for this squad as he has yet to earn game time at new club Cape Town City‚ has been Nigeria’s tormentor recently. He scored two goals as Bafana were 2-0 up in Uyo in November 2014‚ where Nigeria fought back to 2-2, but still never recovered from that result as SA qualified for Equatorial Guinea 2015 at their expense. That result had put a doubt in the minds of a Super Eagles team used to an almost complete domination over SA. In Uyo in June 2017 Bafana won 2-0 for their first competitive victory against Nigeria at the start of the current Cameroon 2019 qualifiers‚ an...
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