Bafana likely to be dealt a tough group in Afcon draw

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Bafana will have to face a combination of any of those two‚ and it is hard to see an easy pathway‚ with perhaps Cameroon and Guinea the best combination they can hope for.

The 24 qualified teams are divided into four pots‚ each containing six teams‚ who will be drawn into the six first round groups.Caf will use a mixture of the March 2019 Fifa world rankings and recent past performance in the Afcon finals to sort the teams into four lots‚ which would place South Africa in pot 3.

But it also means they will have two of the continent’s top sides in their pool‚ with pots 1 and 2 packed with quality opposition. But Stuart Baxter’s side could also be pooled with hosts Egypt and Morocco‚ Tunisia and Nigeria‚ or Ivory Coast and Algeria‚ for example.

 

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