South African FA Push For Replay Of World Cup Qualifier
South Africa are set to lodge a "formal complaint" about "questionable decisions" which marred the officiating in Sunday's 1-0 defeat by Ghana.
Bafana Bafana needed a draw to reach the third and final round of African qualifying for the 2022 World Cup, but Ghana won with a controversial penalty.
The penalty was awarded after Ghana's Leicester City midfielder Daniel Amartey went down following what appeared minimal contact from defender Rushine de Reuck, who was booked for his challenge.
South Africa Football Association's (SAFA) chief executive Tebogo Mothlante was vocal about the association's displeasure.
"The match officials have decided the game, which is not what is supposed to happen," he claimed,
"We will be writing to both CAF [the Confederation of African Football] and [world governing body] Fifa - firstly to investigate how the game was handled and secondly to challenge some of these decisions.
"We have already registered with the match commissioner that we will be making a formal complaint."
South Africa understands that the grounds for matches to be replayed does exist.
They were forced to replay a 2018 World Cup qualifier against Senegal after the referee was found guilty of match manipulation.
The South Africans had originally beaten Senegal 2-1, with Fifa later concluding that Ghanaian referee Joseph Lamptey - 'with the sole purpose of facilitating a minimum number of goals to make certain bets successful - clearly took two wrong decisions'.
The Black Stars' narrow win enabled them to reach the African World Cup play-offs by the narrowest of margins, ousting South Africa at the top of the group on goals scored.
South African FA Push For Replay Of World Cup Qualifier
