{"id":1195,"date":"2026-08-04T14:50:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2026-08-04T14:50:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:50:52","slug":"we-know-what-is-at-stake-dr-ellis-ahead-of-banyanas-wafcon-showdown-against-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/we-know-what-is-at-stake-dr-ellis-ahead-of-banyanas-wafcon-showdown-against-burkina-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"We know what is at stake \u2013 Dr Ellis ahead of Banyana\u2019s WAFCON showdown against Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sasol Banyana Banyana head coach Dr Desiree Ellis says they are well aware of what is at stake ahead of the all-important CAF Women Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON 2026) clash against Burkina Faso on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two nations face off in the last Group B fixture with spots in the next round of the competition up for grabs. Kickoff is at 22h00 South African time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Banyana Banyana are bottom of the table with just one point after two matches, while Burkina Faso are third and two points ahead. In the other Group B fixture, Ivory Coast who are top of the table on four points, take on second-placed Tanzania who have three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBurkina Faso are not here by fluke, but we have to focus on ourselves. We have to control play from the first whistle \u2013 we can only control what we can control. We have prepared well and we will be ready to give the best we can, we know what is at stake. It is probably the final for us, if we don\u2019t get the result we require, it\u2019s the end of the road. We have been in similar positions before, and I believe we have players with enough experience to get us over the line. Yes, there will be pressure, but we have never doubted ourselves and we can draw inspirations from the fact that we have done it before,\u201d said Dr Ellis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sasol Banyana Banyana head coach Dr Desiree Ellis says they are well aware of what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}