The South African U20 Men’s National team looks to continue with the winning momentum when they take on Angola in the second match of Group B in the CAF U20 Men’s Africa Cup of Nations COSAFA qualifiers currently underway in Mozambique.
The two nations face off on Monday (21 September) at the ABB 1 Stadium in Matola with a 15h00 kickoff. Both countries come into the fixture at the back of convincing victories in their opening games of the tournament. South Africa brushed aside a spirited Lesotho 3-0 while Angola emerged triumphant in a 4-0 win over Eswatini.
Angola is top of the group due to goal difference.
“From what we have observed, Angola is the strongest team in our group. As today is Match Day-1 we went back to view the match against Lesotho and see where we could improve, and judging from the few minutes of today’s training session the boys look sharp and if we take our chances against Angola we will do better. This is a game we must win to progress to the semi-finals, but we know they are a good team, and we need to brace ourselves for a tough match,” said Amajita Head Coach Raymond Mdaka.
South Africa has been further boosted by the arrival of the duo of Emile Witbooi and Cayden Fortune who were unavailable against the Mountain Kingdom side due to club commitments. Their arrival brings the squad number to 23 and means that Mdaka and his technical team have a full complement of players to choose from for the rest of the tournament.
“We all know they have been part of the team from the word go but just a few logistics we had to sort out, and hopefully they will give us a plus in terms of the balance of the team. We know what Emile can do and just a little worry about the travelling, the rest after playing (for his club), but I think the few minutes that they will give us hopefully it will be something different or added value to what we did against Lesotho,” added Mdaka.
Eswatini will face Lesotho in the other Group B match.
