Mosimane left frustrated as Bafana switch off at the death against Kenya

The draw leaves them just a point ahead of Guinea in Group D, with seven points after three matches. 

Bafana regained their lead in the 77th minute through Relebohile Mofokeng’s goal, but after captain Ronwen Williams was penalized for holding the ball for over eight seconds, they lost momentum. 

Mosimane says this is a tough lesson.

"When a team concedes a goal at that time, you can say we lost concentration, we could have done better. When we scored also in the 88th minute, we can also say they lost concentration,” Mosimane said.

“It's football, we could have done better, maybe as we went out from that because the goal came from the new laws of the goalkeeper having the ball, keeping it longer. 

“He created a corner kick, we went out and when it came back it was a goal. They have to learn that it needs character, easy to point out mistakes and point out individuals, not for me, I've been in football for long. 

“I don't know how it's gonna end, maybe you know, if you know I'll prepare differently but we have to travel the route. Everybody wants to end where we want but nobody wants to travel the difficult route to end where we want to end."

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Bafana took the lead via Amos Wanjala’s own goal in the ninth minute, but they equalized through Michael Olunga’s penalty on the stroke of halftime. 

Bafana had plenty of chances in the first half to kill the game, something Mosimane bemoaned as he reflected on the two points dropped.

"Football tells you that it's not about ball possession and it's not about how many chances you create, it's about how many chances you take and Kenya showed that. They don't need much to cause an upset on us and the few chances they got, they used them,” the coach added. 

“I think if you want to see how many chances we missed it's a series. I got reminded that I haven't been around for some time, welcome home. In South Africa we can miss a lot and not take chances and I think it's about all, it's about taking chances, what can we say."