Hugo Broos not happy with lengthy Bafana Bafana injury list

South Africa most recently defeated Sierra Leone 4-0 and Botswana 1-0 in international friendlies in September and next take on Mozambique and Angola ahead of returning to competitive action with Africa Cup of Nations qualifying.

Bafana are in camp as they prepare for the Mambas on Thursday but injuries to Siphesihle Sithole, Innocent Maela, Nkosinathi Sibisi and Mihali Mayambela means that Broos will have a very different line-up to the one that last took the field for him.

Ahead of the midweek game, the Bafana boss said in the Citizen: "I am here with mixed feelings, on the one side happiness and on the other disappointment. Happiness because we are in a fantastic location to have training sessions, everything is good. And I am also happy because we are able to have a camp in November.

"I said months ago that we needed the camp, because there was an enormous gap between September and March, when we play Liberia, so we begged to have a camp. Mozambique and Angola are good opponents so it will be a good test for March.

"There is disappointment, because we can't follow our plan.

"The plan was to play again in the matches with the guys who were there in September. Maybe not all, but 75 percent of them. But when you see the list of injuries."

But Broos was able to look on the plus side when he added: "On the other side, there is an opportunity for the players that are now there to show their qualities and to force maybe a place in the Bafana reckoning in the future. So our ambitions will not decrease for that (the injuries). We want victories like we wanted in September against Botswana and Sierra Leone.

"It should be an enormous boost, if after two victories in September we can have two wins again this week, so we can go with full confidence into the two important games in March."