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<\/p>\nBafana Bafana came into the game confident, after they eliminated hosts Egypt in the Round of 16.<\/p>\n
But after Zungu made it 1-1 following Samuel Chukwueze\u2019s opener, William Troost-Ekong grabbed the winner in the 89th minute.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst of all, a very disappointing result for us.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst half we gave them a lot of respect. Second half, the coach told us to press them high and I think we did quite good and we were moving the ball well.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like we were going to score, and when we scored the goal we were in the game, but unfortunately, we lost concentration in the end.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very disappointing, we are sad, but I am very proud of the team. We fought hard, we didn\u2019t start the tournament good, but we should have won this one. But it\u2019s part of the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a good game plan, but I feel in the first half we gave them a lot of respect, we had to press them high, so their centre backs do not play the diagonal ball to Musa and the other winger, but as I said in the second half we did well.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got back to the game, we moved the ball well. We closed them down, we put them under pressure, but we just lost concentration. I think that\u2019s where the game was [decided]. We have to now go back to the drawing board. It\u2019s very disappointing,\u201d Zungu told SuperSportTV.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
South Africa midfielder, Bongani Zungu, has said they should have beaten Nigeria, in their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final on Wednesday. Bafana Bafana came into the game confident, after they eliminated hosts Egypt in the Round of 16. But after Zungu made it 1-1 following Samuel Chukwueze\u2019s opener, William Troost-Ekong grabbed the winner in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[243,354,12716],"class_list":["post-134762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nigeria","tag-south-africa","tag-zungu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}