Keagan Dolly has highlighted key areas that the Bafana Bafana team at CHAN needs to improve ahead of their second Group C match against Guinea on Monday.
South Africa secured a 1-1 draw with group favourites Algeria on Friday and currently sits in fourth place.
Their opponents, Guinea, are in third place with three points, having won 1-0 against Niger and suffered a 3-0 defeat to co-hosts Uganda.
Dolly is aware of how difficult their five-team group is and stresses that every match is vital for the team’s progression beyond the group stages.
He believes Bafana had a good match against Algeria, which helped the team gain confidence.
“We know that tomorrow’s game is not going to be easy. We have done our homework off the field, and for us
it’s just to stick to our structure, stick to what we want to achieve as a team and go out there and perform. We take each game as it comes, and tomorrow, we’re focusing on Guinea,” Dolly said.
WHAT AREAS DOES KEAGAN DOLLY BELIEVE NEED TO BE FIXED?
He added that the goal was to improve and progress with each game in the tournament. “We’re playing Guinea. In the past game, we played very well, but obviously, we have a lot of things that we still need to improve on. That’s our focus, just to improve each session, improve each game and hopefully make it as far as we can,” he added.
In their corrections, Dolly said they noted that “because it was the first game, we were a bit anxious, and the decision making” could be better.
The former Mamelodi Sundowns and Kaizer Chiefs attacker mentioned that when the team needed to push forward or control the game, they could have done better. “The few chances that we do create, we should try to take them because it’s a tournament and all the goals will count at the end of the day and all the points. And just to stay concentrated throughout the 90 minutes and stick to our tactical agreements as a team.”
Meanwhile, CHAN team coach Molefi Ntseki regards Guinea as an offensive team and stated his players would approach the game with caution.
“We will be going into this game fully aware that they are a very offensive team. They’ve got some very good individual players that can hurt you anytime, give a chance. We always give respect to the teams and also zoom into those individuals in terms of how we want to play offensively, how we want to play defensively,”
Ntseki said. He warned his charges that their opponents have “very good headers of the ball” and could be dangerous on set-plays.
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