Will Mofokeng participate with Bafana Bafana against Benin? Broos answers

Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos did not hide his great admiration for Relibohile Mofokeng after the player's great performance with the national team against Lesotho in his first match with the team, in which they won 2-0 and climbed to the top of Group C.

The Belgian coach gave the Orlando Pirates star an amazing opportunity when he included him in the 23-man list that faced Lesotho, and they won against them, knowing that many PSL fans were arguing that the player did not deserve the opportunity to participate with the national team.

How Broos defended his player in front of the press!

I think this game was the right moment for Rele, he played a very good game and this is what we need, when you put a young guy in the team, as a coach, you have to always think they can succeed, If he doesn’t, can you imagine he played a bad game, then everyone would say ‘ya, ya, ya maybe it’s too soon, maybe he’s not so good, blah, blah, blah’. So you have to help the player with that.

Although the player performed well against Lesotho, the Belgian coach said that it is normal for the player not to start mainly against Benin.

I think I did that with Rele and I did that today with Jayden too, for me, Jayden also played a very good game – but this was also an opponent to do that. You can’t do that against Nigeria, or maybe for the first time, in Benin because those are different games, So I have to watch and see when is the right moment and then sometimes they don’t succeed then either but today you see Rele, he had the confidence from my side and he confirmed it, so I’m very happy with that.

Broos said.