Stuart Baxter has painted an even more vivid picture of what his Bafana Bafana charges experienced during their do-or-die Africa Cup of Nations qualifier away to Libya on Sunday night.
With a little over 14 000 or so fans crossing the border from Libya to Tunisia, where their national team has been forced to play their home matches because of a civil war in their own country, creating a hostile reception for Baxter and his men, Bafana nonetheless got the job done with a 2-1 win that sealed their qualification to this year's AFCON in Egypt.
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Baxter, after arriving in Johannesburg on Tuesday afternoon, recounted to the media what it was like having it all to do at the Stade Taieb Mhiri.
"It was a very hostile environment – and I don't know if anybody could work out what they were chanting. But they were chanting 'Bafana, F*** you' and it was like 14 000 people, who were throwing bottles at the technical area," the coach recalled.
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Percy Tau scored twice in the second half, with Libya pulling one back to give Bafana a scare, although the South Africans held on for the win.
"So I thought the players were nervous in the first 20 minutes. I didn't think we played as we wanted to play with the ball. We were waiting for the storm, we got it and weathered it. Once we changed a couple of things at half-time I thought we looked very good and the players were magnificent."
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