South Africa coach Hugo Broos believes his team should have scored especially in the first half where they had several chances.

“I think we were the best team in the first half, we had the best chances,” the Belgian told the media at the end of the game.

“Nigeria didn’t have [even] one chance [in the first half]. No! Nothing. [In the] second half, they had a few chances and scored.

“But then we changed something tactically and came back but two minutes before the end of the 90 minutes we had three chances again.”

“I am very, very proud of it, I am proud of my players; the disappointment is [failing to reach the final], but the proudness is that,” the Belgian who helped Cameroon win the 2017 edition added.

“What they performed, not only [on Wednesday] I think you have to be proud as a coach. Yes, it is a defeat and you see you played a very bad game against Cape Verde with penalties and [on Wednesday] you played a very good game against Nigeria and you lost on penalties.

“That’s also football, but again, we have only to think about the way we played this Afcon and I think everyone knows South Africa as a good playing team and that is the most important [thing].”

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