This after Banyana Banyana collected three points to lead Group C, after their hard fought 2-0 win over Ghana at Honneur Stadium last night. Speaking at the post-match presser, Ellis was glad that the team managed to create enough chances and still kept a clean-sheet.

“Things have been really sound we always know we going to play our chances and we always say we can keep a clean sheet within the game and today the whole team played defensively really well but it was extremely hot out there and i think the cooling break was welcome I think we made the right changes at the right time and that also helped to settle down  the team.

Definitely  way from gone they still a quality side because the 15 minutes could have changed the game if we had to concede but we stuck in there another round took a little bit of control and got the result we wanted.:

Ellis admits that it was a challenging match and had to remind the players to tap into their usual style of play to press Ghana's youthful side.

“ I think they started very well they had us under pressure the first 15 minutes we couldn’t get out of our build up  we changed things a bit  and then got out started getting into the ball a little bit more   because that is our strength. I haven't seen the penalty, though, but I know the foul was inside the box," Ellis said. "Sometimes, it goes for you, sometimes it doesn't. I think the second goal came at the right time. We could have finished it off with a third one, they almost got back into the game. We had a couple of chances. But if you ;look at the game overall i think it was in because Andile made quiet a couple of saves as well I thought she handles long balls very well we knew that it would come from the left hand side   and the in the middle field I thought Linda controlled that part of the game.”

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