Percy Tau continues to struggle at the Afcon.
Percy Tau talks about rectifying his penalty kick miss
“I’ve been playing for my country for some time now, I feel like I’ve given so much more than the missed penalty,” Percy Tau said.
Percy Tau continues to struggle at the Afcon.
Bafana Bafana star player Percy Tau redeemed himself on Sunday following his penalty miss against Mali.
Against Namibia, Bafana were awarded a penalty and Tau stepped up to open the scoring in the 14th minutes as Bafana defeated the Brave Warriors 4-0.
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The Al Ahly winger revealed what his teamamtes said to him after his penalty miss against Mali in Bafanaa’s opening African Cup of Nations match.
“They were disappointed because they thought I was going to score, so it was not nice, they gave me the responsibility,” Tau said.
“When I missed, it was like; ‘ah you could have scored that one’ – it could have changed the game, but they understand these things happen, it’s football.
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“We’ll try and give everything, we’ll try, I don’t think this win gives us the feeling to be over the moon or to feel that we are doing great, we’re still grounded,” he said.
Tau, who has earned over 40 caps for Bafana, said it felt good to rectify his mistakes.
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“I’ve been playing for my country for some time now, I feel like I’ve given so much more than the missed penalty. I didn’t think twice about taking this penalty, it’s nice also to be able to rectify the mistakes.”
Bafana go into their last Afcon group match knowing that a draw against Tunisia should see them qualify for the round of 16.
Tau said the team was prepared to give it everything on Wednesday.
“We’ll try to do everything in the last game because we know it can go either way – so we don’t want to be on the out with the last game so we’ll try and give everything and hopefully we win, play good football, take our chances to score, don’t concede, it will be nice [to keep another cleansheet].”
