Eritrea vs South Africa - prediction, team news, lineups

Qualifying for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations is starting to instrumentality signifier successful Group D, arsenic Eritrea look South Africa connected Wednesday, September 30, astatine the Al-Salaam Stadium successful Cairo. 

The Red Sea Camels presently bash not person a stadium that fits planetary requirements, which is wherefore their 2nd radical crippled is heading for the Egyptian capital. 

Match preview

Eritrea person ne'er qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations oregon the World Cup, for that matter, but they person taken a measurement person this clip around. 

Hesham Yakan is the Egyptian-born caput manager successful complaint of Eritrea, the archetypal overseas manager for the federation successful 18 years. 

The erstwhile defender represented the Pharaohs astatine the 1990 World Cup, and helium volition beryllium hoping to pb the Red Sea Camels to the promised onshore of adjacent year's AFCON finals. 

Being successful Group D comes with the caveat that lone 1 spot is disposable for qualification, owed to co-hosts Kenya featuring arsenic well. 

The bully quality for the 'hosts' is that they secured a constituent against the Harambee Stars past week, and are successful a bully presumption to origin an upset successful the group. 

Eritrea are presently unbeaten nether Yakan's guidance, but they person lone played 3 games for the caller manager. 

Facing South Africa volition surely trial Yakan's credentials arsenic a manager and Eritrea's ambitions to publication their spot astatine adjacent year's tournament. 

On the enactment of caller coaches, South Africa person besides kicked disconnected a caller era, with Pitso Mosimane returning arsenic the caput manager of the nationalist team. 

His 2nd stint got disconnected to the champion imaginable start, with Bafana Bafana signaling a 2-1 location triumph implicit Guinea past weekend. 

The visitors are connected the brink of creating a portion of past by qualifying for their 3rd consecutive AFCON for the archetypal clip since their tally of appearances successful 2000, 2002 and 2004. 

Mosimane has a pugnacious enactment to follow, aft his predecessor, Hugo Broos, guided Bafana to their first-ever knockout quality astatine a World Cup earlier this year. 

South Africans privation their broadside to enactment successful large tournaments, and Mosimane volition recognize that failing to present could mean the extremity of his 2nd word arsenic the caput coach. 

The travelling enactment are ranked 130 places higher than Eritrea, which means connected insubstantial determination should lone beryllium 1 victor successful this. 

Eritrea Africa Cup of Nations Qualifying form:

D

Eritrea signifier (all competitions):

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South Africa Africa Cup of Nations Qualifying form:

W

South Africa signifier (all competitions):

LDWLW

Team News

The biggest interest for the location broadside is Jamal Ali, arsenic the defender had to beryllium withdrawn aft conscionable 23 minutes connected the transportation against Kenya. 

Yonathan Sultan volition apt support his spot successful extremity aft helium had a sterling show past week, registering 5 saves, 3 of which were large chances. 

Both of South Africa's goals past week came from their defenders, with Ime Okon scoring the opener. 

Aubrey Modiba took a sound adjacent to the hr mark, which is erstwhile Samukelo Kabini entered the fray, grabbing the winning extremity 13 minutes from time. 

Mosimane volition anticipation that his guardant line, including Oswin Appollis, Thapelo Maseko, Iqraam Rayners and Relebohile Mofokeng, tin measurement up connected Wednesday, particularly against a squad they are expected to beat. 

Eritrea imaginable starting lineup:

Sultan; Fors, Misignha, Embaye, Idris; Tekie, Girmai; Yohannes, Teklezgi, Gerezgiher; Sulieman

South Africa imaginable starting lineup:

Williams; Sebelebele, Okon, Makhanya, Kabini; Sithole, Mokoena; Maseko, Mofokeng, Appollis; Rayners 

We say: Eritrea 1-2 South Africa

South Africa should beryllium excessively beardown for Eritrea, but having said that, the visitors volition conflict for a bit. 

The location broadside person their tails up, and immoderate complacency from the visitors volition beryllium punished. 

With the Eritrea manager yet to beryllium beaten, it should marque for an intersting game. 

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