Bafana coach Desiree Ellis. Picture: LEFTY SHIVAMBU/GALLO IMAGES
The tie ended 0-0 after 210 minutes of football‚ which included a period of extra time‚ with Botswana triumphing 3-2 in the penalty shoot-out to stun a Banyana side who just a few months ago were competing at the Fifa Women’s World Cup in France. “We had so many chances and could not even score one,” Ellis said. “The penalty shoot-out is always a lottery. It is disappointing for all of us. We have spoken in the past about chances that we needed to take and it seemed too easy to miss them. It is just not a good day for us.
“When you have the goal gaping and you don’t put the ball in the back of the net, you hit the post‚ you go into a penalty shoot-out and you don’t do well in the shoot-out either — it is a disaster.”
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