Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos was pleased with his side’s performance despite claiming a positive result against Morocco in their final Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Saturday evening.

South Africa secured a memorable 2-1 victory over Morocco thanks to an own goal by Munir Mohamedi and a goal from Zakhele Lepasa at the Stadium Stadium.

As a result, Bafana fished at the top of Group K with a total of seven points while Morocco finished a point behind them in second place.

Broos felt like his side deserved the victory against Africa’s number one rank team following their impressive performance in Soweto.

“I don’t have to tell you that I’m very, very happy today,” Broos said after the match.

“Not only because we won the game, I think we deserved to win the game. See the chances we’ve had. But I’m more happy about the performance.

“I said before the game, the result is not important but I like to see a good performance, I like to see progression we made in the last months.

“I think and I hope that you’ll agree we saw a team that made enormous progression in the last months.

“We played against a very good team, a very good team! We were never dominated, never. On the contrary, we sometimes dominated that team.

“We had three/four very good chances to chances to score. If I remember, just one or two fro Morocco. It means that we were from the first minute to the last minute in the game.

“I’m happy that I went on to give confidence in that group of players. I believe in them, even when some people didn’t believe in them, [saying] I made ‘bad choices’. I didn’t understand the South African culture…

“But you see, you don’t build a team in one day. You need time! In that time defeat can be very useful. So we had defeats but we learnt a lot from them. Today you see a team that’s black, a team that plays good football, a team that creates a lot of chances.

“I think that’s what we want and we still have to improve that’s for sure.”

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