This Saturday evening, the DRC and South Africa faced each other for the small final of this CAN 2023. A match between the two losers of the semi-finals and which should allow us to know who would finish with this bronze medal. And after a draw (0-0), it was ultimately South Africa who won the penalty shootout. Chancel Mbemba had the match point in this session but he missed his shot and therefore allowed Bafana Bafana to reverse the situation.
At the microphone of Canal+, the OM defender returned to this end missed by his team. “Our chance has run out. We played our match from start to finish and we pushed. Afterwards, we went to penalties and it was luck. It’s like that. We missed it and we assume, life is like that. It did not work. We worked on this in training and yet today, look at reality. We don’t deserve to finish fourth, but that’s football. The next CAN in 2025, we will try to qualify and we will see. The work allowed us to build a group. Without work, we wouldn’t have gotten here, we started well and we prepared well. But it’s a shame this 4th place.”
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