Banyana coach pleased with her charges despite 3-0 defeat to the US
Teenager Holweni impresses in debut for SA
Banyana Banyana coach Desiree Ellis says she was pleased with the overall performance of her side despite a 3-0 loss to the US on Sunday in their final warm-up fixture ahead of the Fifa Women’s World Cup in France. The US are favourites to retain the World Cup crown‚ but were made to labour for the win against a Banyana outfit missing three of their top stars in Thembi Kgatlana‚ Linda Motlhalo and Leandra Smeda. The home side took until the 37th minute to open the scoring through Samantha Mewis‚ and then added two more later on via Mewis and Carli Lloyd. Banyana had a few opportunities on the counterattack‚ including one for impressive teenage debutant Sibulele Holweni‚ but did not work the US goalkeeper hard enough. “In the first half we did very well‚ especially our organisation and structure was perfect‚” Ellis said. “There were no lines to play through and when they did play through‚ our cover was good. “The only thing is that when we won the ball‚ our decision-making could hav...
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