The coach of the South African national team Hugo Broos has declared that Bafana Bafana will try to shock the Super Eagles again in the forthcoming 2026 World Cup qualifying game which will played at the ‘Nest of Champions’ in Uyo.
Broos who made the comments in a recent chat with the South African media, however, noted that the Super Eagles of Nigeria are a different team under newly appointed coach George Finidi.
The South African coach said that with Finidi at the helm, the Super Eagles is a different team from the one that participated at the 2023 AFCON as they are now more offensive.
“We will try to shock them again. It’s a little bit different than the team of AFCON,” Broos told SABC.
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“With Finidi George they have a coach who thinks more offensively. Peseiro was a little bit more defensive and I saw that certainly in the game against us, he was always telling the team to go back.
“Also in the final they didn’t really play offensively, they just tried to be good defensively and then hoping on a counterattack or a situation in front of the goal where they could score.
Broos said that the style of play was different in the two friendly games Nigeria played against Ghana and Mali as the team took more initiative.
“I saw two games against Mali and Ghana, it’s different. They take a little bit more initiative. It’s not the team anymore who went back and wait.
“They also try to make pressure early in the game and close to the goal of the opponent, so we have to look for something now that we can shock them again like we did for the game in Ivory Coast.” He noted.
