{"id":21865,"date":"2013-08-13T13:19:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T11:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/igesund-expects-tight-game-between-bafana-and-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2013-08-13T13:19:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T11:19:25","slug":"igesund-expects-tight-game-between-bafana-and-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/igesund-expects-tight-game-between-bafana-and-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Igesund expects tight game between Bafana and Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=13333\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13333\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13333\" alt=\"South Africa face African champions Nigeria at the Moses Mabhida Stadium, with coach Gordon Igesund expecting a close game. Photo: Lefty Shivambu \/ Gallo Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/dd2f0_4248087282.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Africa face African champions Nigeria at the Moses Mabhida Stadium, with coach Gordon Igesund expecting a close game. Photo: Lefty Shivambu \/ Gallo Images<\/p>\n<p>Bevan Fransman will miss Bafana Bafana\u2019s friendly international against Nigeria this week, while Anele Ngcongca and Tokelo Rantie still have to arrive for the Durban clash, coach Gordon Igesund stated yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>SuperSport United captain Fransman has been given time off until Thursday, a day after the Nelson Mandela Challenge, to be with his wife for the birth of their child.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium-based defender Ngcongca and striker Rantie, who plays in Sweden, are expected to arrive in camp on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/igesund-picks-bafana-players-on-form\/\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa face the African champions at the Moses Mabhida Stadium<\/a>, before taking on Burkina Faso in a Nelson Mandela Sport and Culture Day clash at FNB Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Both matches would give the national coach some much-needed game time ahead of a crucial World Cup qualifier against Botswana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s obviously preparing for the game against Botswana, that\u2019s the big picture, but this game is also important,\u201d Igesund said in Durban on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like my team to go out there and beat Nigeria. I think we\u2019re capable of doing that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to send a message to the rest of world that we are progressing. Nigeria have a quality team, but equally, <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/igesund-picks-bafana-players-on-form\/\" target=\"_blank\">I believe we also have a quality team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect the game to be tight, with just one goal separating the two sides.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sapa<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/igesund-picks-bafana-players-on-form\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/dd2f0_191676024_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/igesund-picks-bafana-players-on-form\/\" target=\"_blank\">Igesund picks Bafana players on form<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/dd2f0_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa face African champions Nigeria at the Moses Mabhida Stadium, with coach Gordon Igesund expecting a close game. Photo: Lefty Shivambu \/ Gallo Images Bevan Fransman will miss Bafana Bafana\u2019s friendly international against Nigeria this week, while Anele Ngcongca and Tokelo Rantie still have to arrive for the Durban clash, coach Gordon Igesund stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}