Honesty, in football, especially when it comes to analyzing the performance of one's team, is key in helping the team improve their future performances.
In Bafana Bafana assistant coach, Helman Mkhalele's comments in the post match conference, there wasn't enough honesty in his assessment of the team's performance.
There was nothing well about Bafana's display against Liberia on Friday night, to even say they played well in patches, would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
The reality is, Bafana's performance was scrappy, they were not patient enough in possession, which led to them giving the ball away cheaply.
As for the missed chances that pissed Hugo Broos off, the less said, the better.
The best that the team could have done, was to manage the game and try to protect their lead, even if it meant playing ugly!
But the substitutions made did nothing to suggest that Bafana's technical team were aware of what was happening on the pitch.
"I believe we played the game so well but we played in patches," Mkhalele told iDiski Times. https://www.idiskitimes.co.za/bafana-bafana/mkhalele-why-coach-hugo-stormed-off-the-pitch/
"We were supposed to kill the game in the first half but we took the foot off the pedal. Then they started to regain confidence. That’s where I thought we lost it.
"More especially after the first goal they scored, that’s when we tried to urge the players to remain composed, but you could see that they started to panic and I believe that led to the equalising goal.
"We told the players that the game is not over, we need to make sure that we take the chances that we created because any goal that they will score, it will work on their minds positively, which it did and negatively on our side."
With all said and done, not all is lost, Bafana can go to Liberia and get a positive result, it is possible.
Broos, Mkhalele, and the players, owe the nation an AFCON appearance, now that is not too much of an ask, is it?
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