Inefficient Banyana through to quarters with messy win
South Africa made weighty work as they wasted a bunch of simple looking possibilities yet at the same time guaranteed their advancement at the Women's Africa Cup of Nations by beating Burundi 3-1 in Rabat on Thursday.
It was a second triumph at the competition in Morocco for Banyana, guaranteeing their advancement to the following week's quarterfinal, with objectives from ruling African Women's Footballer of the Year Thembi Kgatlana, Amogelang Motau and substitute Linda Motlhako.
In any case, it was the humiliating presentation that mentor Desiree Ellis had dreaded. She had cautioned before the match of lack of concern and under-assessing the small Burundi, making their introduction and the most minimal positioned of the 12 groups at the competition.
South Africa's rundown of missed sitters ought to make them wince with shame, including a punishment miss and two times going round the goalkeeper just to miss the objective.
Kgatlana was especially blameworthy with both unfortunate getting done and egotistical play while Jermaine Seoposenwe, back in the group following a three-year nonappearance, had her punishment on the stroke of halftime saved.
Banyana were on the chase from the initial moment however looked presumptuous and were messy with their completing the process of, requiring 20 minutes before Kgatlana in the end broke the gridlock, practically strolling the ball into the net after a progression of smooth passes.
Be that as it may, Ellis was irate as South Africa yielded to Burundi's just genuine assault of the game nearly 10 minutes after the fact. The mentor had said before the match she needed to keep a perfect sheet subsequent to yielding late in Monday's 2-1 win over Nigeria.
However, winger Asha Djafari prodded South Africa down the left wing prior to setting up a balancer for Aniella Uwimana.
Motau had South Africa back ahead two minutes after the fact with her most memorable worldwide mentor, chipping the ball wide of the goalkeeper in the wake of being set up by Robyn Moodaly, who was another at real fault for squandering possibilities.
Seoposenwe's punishment in stoppage time toward the finish of the principal half was masterfully come by Burundi's goalkeeper Jeanine Irakoze, who played with an unconventional blend of brightness in shot pausing and complete disarray with her situating.
Irakoze allowed away a second punishment with a cumbersome tackle on Kgatlana in the 52nd moment permitting Motlhako, who had come on at halftime for Moodaly to score.
Burundi had tall protector Annociate Nshimirimana shipped off in the 72nd moment after an extended VAR check. Her hack on Seoposenwe's was declared to stop a reasonable goalscoring chance by the last player in safeguard.
However, Banyana neglected to take utilize the mathematical benefit from that point onward, as they kept on missing the objective.
It was a second loss for Burundi, who lost 4-2 to Botswana in their initial game. They are next facing Nigeria on Sunday while South Africa take on Botswana.
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