Coach Stuart Baxter's charges open their Egypt 2019 account at the Al Salam Stadium in Cairo on Monday and they were hoping to use the Angola encounter to prepare for the Ivorians.
Baxter has only had one tough training match under his belt and it is debatable if the friendly against Ghana was enough to iron out whatever kinks that may still exist for the start of the tournament.But midfielder Dean Furman elected to look on the bright side and insisted that not only would the team be ready by Monday next week‚ they would produce better performances than the 2015 Bafana team that crashed in the opening stages of the continental tournament.
“We were hoping to get here for a long time and obviously the pre-tournament camp has been pretty good‚” said Furman after the team’s first training session in Egypt.“So there’s good spirit‚ good Afcon vibe here in Egypt and we had a nice welcome.Bafana will face 1992 and 2015 champions Ivory Coast and 1976 winners Morocco in Group D.
Furman said they had a few things to improve after watching a video of their training match against Ghana."Some top players were playing from top leagues in the world‚” said the SuperSport United skipper.
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