South Africa head coach, Hugo Broos feels his side deserved more from their semi-final encounter against Nigeria.<\/p>\n
The Bafana Bafana lost 4-2 on penalties to the Super Eagles in the game.<\/p>\n
Broos\u2019 side rallied from a goal down to take the game to penalties but couldn\u2019t make it to the final.<\/p>\n
\u201cFootball can be hard,\u201d Broos said after the match.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you see the performance of my team today and then there is penalties and you lose the game, you\u2019re not in the final, it\u2019s hard to accept that, because we played a very good game today.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we were the best team first half, we had the best chances. Nigeria didn\u2019t have one chance, no, nothing. Second half, okay, they had a few chances and scored.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut then we changed something tactically and we could come back but two minutes before the end of the 90 minutes we had again three chances. So if we could score there, it\u2019s us going to the final and not Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay, that can happen in football. It\u2019s a big disappointment for everyone because we feel that we played a very good game today, that we played a very good AFCON.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very, very proud of it. I\u2019m proud of my players. The disappointment is this, but the proudness is that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat they performed, not only today, I think you have to be proud as a coach. Yes, it\u2019s a defeat and you see you played a very bad game against Cape Verde and you win with penalties and today you play a very good game against Nigeria and you lose with penalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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