Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter has urged his men to block out the potential hostile crowd at the Stade Taieb Mhiri in Tunisia and get the job done against Libya to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations.
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All Bafana need is a draw to join Nigeria at the tournament later this year as one of the two teams from Group E of the AFCON qualifiers. Although Libya have been forced to used a neutral venue due to the civil war in their own country, Tunisia is close enough for their fans to travel to the venue.
"I have played at the Nou Camp (Spain), Wembley (England) and lots of other big stadiums that have been packed. We have played in Congo with Bafana my first time around with them – about 10 000 people there," Baxter told the media ahead of this evening's crucial fixture.
"But still I've never seen a crowd come down on the pitch and actually win a game. It still ends up on what you do. But it is the head space. It's how do they cope with the what ifs and the 'I better not make this mistake', keeping that little chitter chatter quiet so they can just get on with the game – play their normal game. That is what we are after and not being affected by the occasion."
Should Libya win instead, it is they who will qualify for the AFCON in Egypt.
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