The Elephants Eliminates Bafana Bafana As The Eagles Tames The Leopards

 Nigeria will play Ivory Coast in the 2023 Afcon final set for Sunday but Hugo Broos believes South Africa should be in the last hurdle.


South Africa coach Hugo Broos believes his team should have scored especially in the first half where they had several chances.

"I think we were the best team in the first half, we had the best chances," the Belgian told the media at the end of the game.

"Nigeria didn’t have [even] one chance [in the first half]. No! Nothing. [In the] second half, they had a few chances and scored.

"But then we changed something tactically and came back but two minutes before the end of the 90 minutes we had three chances again.

"I am very, very proud of it, I am proud of my players; the disappointment is [failing to reach the final], but the proudness is that," the Belgian who helped Cameroon win the 2017 edition added.

"What they performed, not only [on Wednesday] I think you have to be proud as a coach. Yes, it is a defeat and you see you played a very bad game against Cape Verde with penalties and [on Wednesday] you played a very good game against Nigeria and you lost on penalties.

"That’s also football, but again, we have only to think about the way we played this Afcon and I think everyone knows South Africa as a good playing team and that is the most important [thing].

The elephants of Ivory coast were able to overcome the highly motivated DRC to win 1- 0 in the semi final played in front of an overly populated Ivorians fans.

The DRC gave it all their best but the luck went to the host as they booked their ticket against Nigerians on sunday thanks to Sebastian Haller late goal.

Ivory coast who started their groups  caampaign with some unfathomable dismal performance that lead to sacking of their coach seems to have turned it all around with an interim coach in place.

It has been a fairy-tale run for the hosts as it has been just two weeks since they sacked head coach Jean-Louis Gasset after a 4-0 thrashing to Equatorial Guinea. Since Emerse Fae took over, the Elephants have crushed every opponent and have looked like a squad on a mission. And on Wednesday, it was no different.

It was a frenetic start to the match as a goalkeeping howler from Yahia Fofana saw Congo's Cedric Bakambu find the net after latching onto a cross from Arthur Masuaku. However, much to the dismay of the visitors, the referee called a foul on the shot-stopper and disallowed the goal.


Fae's charges then started to grow in the match and finished the half strongly. Haller missed a sitter despite being unmarked, while former Barcelona midfielder, Franck Kessie, was denied by the woodwork after he rifled in a low shot from the edge of the Congo penalty box.

Ivory Coast continued to build pressure and were rewarded for their perseverance in the 65th minute when Haller spectacularly struck to put the Elephants ahead. The Borussia Dortmund striker could have doubled his tally five minutes later after an awful defensive header from Kalulu gifted possession to him. Congo tried to get back into the game, but Ivory Coast held firm to book their place in the final against the Super Eagles



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