Banyana Banyana may have celebrated late into the night on Thursday upon qualifying for next year's Women's Fifa World Cup after beating Tunisia 1-0 in Rabat, Morocco, but for coach Desiree Ellis, improving Banyana's game was uppermost in her mind.
Banyana will face Zambia for a place in the Women's Africa Cup of Nations final in Casablanca on Monday after agoal gave the team their ticket to next year's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
“We started really well but then we stopped playing. Why, I don't know,” said Ellis, who also took Banyana to the 2019 World Cup in France.
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