Banyana Banyana coach Desiree Ellis sees facing Burkina Faso at WAFCON as no easy task

Desiree Ellis does not see Burkina Faso as pushovers ahead of their all-important group B match at WAFCON.

Ellis' Banyana face the West Africans having not won a game as they lost to Tanzania in the first game and drew 2-2 against Ivory Coast on Friday.

Banyana have made it known that they want to do well in this tournament so that they can qualify for next year's Women's World Cup and this game is by no means an important tie.

“Burkina Faso are not here by fluke, but we have to focus on ourselves. We have to control play from the first whistle – we can only control what we can control. We have prepared well and we will be ready to give the best we can, we know what is at stake.” said Ellis.

"It is probably the final for us, if we don’t get the result we require, it’s the end of the road. We have been in similar positions before, and I believe we have players with enough experience to get us over the line. Yes, there will be pressure, but we have never doubted ourselves and we can draw inspirations from the fact that we have done it before.”