Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter has hinted at what type of game plan the national team could deploy in their must-win final Africa Cup of Nations qualifier away to Libya in Sfax, Tunisia on Sunday evening.
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Although Bafana only need a draw to join Nigeria as the two teams to emerge from Group E for this year's tournament in Egypt, the Englishman insisted that his men know how to defend – but that will not be their approach.
"I think we can defend, but I don't think we are a team that can go there and park the bus, thinking we can stay in our defending zone for 90 minutes," he told the media this week.
"I don't think that is the mentality we have, and I don't think that is the sort of team we are. I think the game plan has to be quite aggressive. It has to be with great attention to our defending – without trying to be at their throats each time we can. We don't know what they (Libya) are thinking. They may be thinking 'for goodness, don't go all gung-ho in the first half an hour' or they may be confident and come flying at us. We have to have a game plan no matter what they do."
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Baxter, who has suggested he may still walk away from the Bafana job regardless of qualification, has over the past few months described Sunday's game as a "knife on the throat'. His team has only conceded one goal in five matches, but the draw at home to Libya in September, as well as another stalemate away to Seychelles, hurt what was initially a good start to the qualification campaign.
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