Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has shared his thoughts on Relebohile Mofokeng after he made his full international debut against Lesotho.

The 20-year-old has already made five appearances for the national team but made his first appearances in the starting lineup against Lesotho.

Mofokeng could not have asked for a better full debut after scoring the opening goal for Bafana before Jayden Adams doubled their lead to hand South Africa a 2-0 win at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane.

Hugo reserved special praise for Mofokeng after his stunning performance but admits that nobody is a regular starter in his squad.
“You know I can tell nobody they are a regular [in] Bafana Bafana, we are 23, that’s the first thing; secondly I said also before, as a coach you have to see when is the right moment to bring in a player [into the XI],” Broos said as per iDiski Times.

“I think this game was the right moment for Rele, he played a very good game and this is what we need, when you put a young guy in the team, as a coach, you have to always think they can succeed.

“If he doesn’t, can you imagine he played a bad game, then everyone would say ‘ya, ya, ya maybe it’s too soon, maybe he’s not so good, blah, blah, blah’. So you have to help the player with that,” the former Cameroon coach added.

“I think I did that with Rele and I did that today with Jayden too, for me, Jayden also played a very good game – but this was also an opponent to do that. You can’t do that against Nigeria, or maybe for the first time, in Benin because those are different games.

“So I have to watch and see when is the right moment and then sometimes they don’t succeed then either – but today you see Rele, he had the confidence from my side and he confirmed it, so I’m very happy with that.”