Desiree Ellis Wants to Learn from Heavy Defeat to Brazil!

Desiree Ellis Wants to Learn from Heavy Defeat to Brazil! The African champions suffered a big loss to the Brazilians yesterday.

Banyana Banyana lost 6-0 to Brazil in an international friendly at the Moses Mabhida stadium last night. Head coach Desiree Ellis believes they can use this match to learn.

The African champions were humbled at home to one of the best national women’s team in the world. They will participate in the FIFA Women’s World Cup next year and have ample time to prepare for the tournament.

Facing stern competition like Brazil will help them play against some of the best teams in the world.

“In the beginning we spoke about minimising our mistakes,” Ellis told the press after the match. 

“We spoke about being brave and about creating opportunities, but we didn’t start well. I think the (first) goal we gave away was a rush of blood and then after that I thought we played better.

“We also spoke about being concentrated for the full 90 minutes and then again, we gave away a silly goal and, in that time, we created a few (opportunities). We went in, tried to address it and immediately after that, we made a mistake again and it’s top teams like Brazil that will pounce on.

“And, when we get an opportunity, we don’t utilise the opportunity.

“All round the result wasn’t great because we are better than that. I explained to the players that this is way up from WAFCON – we still have a lot of work to do, the (FIFA) World Cup is not tomorrow, it’s almost a year from now and we wanted a test like this to see where we at,” she spoke.

The coach also complained about the lack of attendance at the game. Desiree Ellis Wants to Learn from Heavy Defeat to Brazil!