Tyson

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[Tyson @givenchybru]

The day you plant the seed is not the day you bare the fruit 💫

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

Historical World Cup for African teams. 🌍✊🏿

✅🇿🇦 South Africa
✅🇨🇻 Cape Verde
✅🇨🇮 Ivory Coast
✅🇲🇦 Morocco
✅🇸🇳 Senegal
✅🇬🇭 Ghana
✅🇪🇬 Egypt
✅🇨🇩 RD Congo
✅🇩🇿 Algeria
❌🇹🇳 Tunisia

9️⃣/🔟 teams have qualified to World Cup Round of 32 👏🏾✨

[Mal @UtdMaI]

So you’re telling me Spain, France, Germany, Portugal, Brazil, Belgium, England and Netherlands all stuck on one side of the bracket…

The other side?
Argentina, Australia, Cape Verde, Egypt.

The script isn’t even trying to hide anymore

[SAFA.net @SAFA_net]

SAFA mourns the passing of Bafana midfielder Jayden Adam’s grandmother.

https://t.co/zcUbxNM4va

[Muhsin Ertugral @MuhsinErtugral]

Bafana vs Canada

We looked into Canadas perspectives

These game is not about just reading statistics.

It’s about to understand and interpret what the statistics telling you.

Bafana has a very good chance to reach the quarter finale I think.
We looked to Canadas identity.
@MatchStudyTR statistics and Coach @h_goren

We did a tactical interpretation.

One conclusion for us,
Canada’s strength is not their attack,many are talking about.

Canada is not a possession team as so many predicting,with 57% possession they had.

Important is where and why and how they use possession mainly for!
- Move opponents sideways,to wider areas,and
attack quickly with crosses,and most importantly early balls, to David and Larin!!

We looked more to their defensive third, and?

They have very high percentage of long balls for a team to play position football.

It comes to, they don’t insist on build up if under pressure !!

If Bafana disturb early, they will play over it.

midfield;

They are not creative for me
like Bafana’s midfield.

Their function is very simple and pragmatic, to connect defence to attack.

I love that word I often use,
their midfield is a “highway”!

Attacking third.

Needs more attention to Anslyse.
There are some interesting statistics!
The attacking entries, is not much combining over central areas…

They immediately look for crosses.

Typical Jesse Marsch football;
-Attack early.
-Attack before the defence settles.

They will attack through the right side, mostly over Johnston + Buchanan that’s their dominance!

Looking into how they create dangerous action, is definitely the relation from the two.

If you stop Canada attacking over the right side,you stop nearly half of their attacks!

There is a very important weakness!
Looking into their pressing moments and organization!

54% success in attacking third.
50% in midfield.
53% in defensive third.
We had discussions about it,

“Excellent pressing” some of the football phenomenas are raving about.

I completely disagree!

For me, the moments of trying to recover is too high for Canada’s players profile.

Looking closer to their recovery, if the moment the first pressing line is bypassed, opponents reached mostly Canada’s defensive line!!!!

It is their speed in offensive transitions, how quick they play in the moment of recovery immediately to the attacking line.
I would say,in same time it is their weakness.

The faster they attack, the will be more exposed, and Bafana’s strength is the quick offensive transitions.
The spaces behind their wing backs, especially around Eustaquio becomes the zone to get in.

I think it’s a paradox of Jesse Marsch’s team, the verticality danger creates vulnerability for themselves as well.

I mentioned at @BBKUnplugged99
about Canada’s identity.

Hopefully we could bring you a bit of an insight.

Sikufisela okuhle, Bafana Bafana!

#bafanabafana

[SBUSISO @SbuMasang]

Aaaah man, this is nonsense. Why can't this amount be invested in improving development leagues, or funding small football academies? The ABC Motsepe League suffers from a lack of proper funding.

[Tyson @givenchybru]

I love Thalente but you CANNOT bench Mrembula for him. That shouldn’t even be a thought

[Sandz. @uMaster_Sandz]

just like a car won’t function without an engine, so is Bafana Bafana can’t function without Thalente Mbatha, the real engine of the squad 🙌🏾🇿🇦🫶🏽. The unsung hero. 😭🇿🇦

[Tyson @givenchybru]

Word 💫

[🄴🄻 🄹🄴🄵🄴 ³⁶ 🔰👑🇿🇦🇧🇷🇵🇹 @da_real_jefe]

I can’t take you seriously if the idea of benching Mokoena makes sense to you.

[Tyson @givenchybru]

Madala loves Sithole too much to bench him 🤞🏽

[2 ⭐️GUBZ🇿🇦🇵🇹 @VhoGubz]

VS Canada. Hear me out 🤞🏿Bafana Bafana are going to the last 16

[Tyson @givenchybru]

You know ball bro 🇿🇦🙏🏼

[SPORO⭐️⭐️ @KamogeloLesetj4]

Madala Needs To Start Him Against Canada. Moremi for me should continue being our impact player. We need his energy in the second half.

Appollis is a big player, he will redeem himself.

[iDiski Times @iDiskiTimes]

𝗡𝗴𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝗶 🇿🇦

Evidence Makgopa won seven aerial duels against South Korea, the most by a Bafana Bafana player in a World Cup game since Lucas Radebe in 2002 against Paraguay (8). [via @OptaJoe]

[Hinokami Kagura @Khuze_Elikhulu]

We can't exit this World Cup without Mbokazi scoring a scorcher from outside the box. I need the world to know why we call him the TLB.

[Mhlongo da Herbalist 🍃 @Qokani]

The Bafana Bafana Class of 2026 has erased all the Class of 2010 hype. It's going to be difficult for the 2010 guys to sit on podcasts acting like football professors when this current generation is busy rewriting the script.

I'm still in awe! 🇿🇦🙊

[𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰 𝔖𝔭𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔯 🇿🇦🇵🇹🇫🇷 🇵🇸 @vuyoxhamfu_]

I don’t know how to explain this but he did all the work that a striker should do without scoring goals , which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Giroud got away with this in 2018.

Ngwana sesi was vital for the structure and momentum we built.

[DME 🇳🇦 @dme_363]

You never posted their squad, why are you posting their success.

[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

South Africa saved their best group performance, packed with defensive resilience, buckets of creativity and a relentless energy, for last.

For HISTORY. Bafana Bafana are in the World Cup knockouts for the first time ever.

Halagasha!!!

[Mazola J. Molefe @superjourno]

🗣️ Thapelo Maseko:

“I watch top players - they don’t give up after missing. Even on the 10th chance they will keep going to score.”

Also, another Rele banger 🔥

[Tyson @givenchybru]

@1603Cindy 3rd best finish med teams ? 8 of them qualify

[Tyson @givenchybru]

Mexico have scored. What does that mean for Bafana ?

[Tyson @givenchybru]

Factual

[Manzi @ClixWell]

That old man’s stubbornness really killed us in that first game 😂 We shouldn’t be here.

[Tyson @givenchybru]

Mrembula

[Fentse. @___ying____]

we’re truly missing teboho mokoena here, he would’ve flourished in this game