Bafana Bafana coach Pitso Mosimane has insisted that a different coach will not be able to solve the team’s goal scoring problem. 

Mosimane was at pains trying to justify why South Africa could not beat Ethiopia at the Royal Bafokeng stadium in Rustenburg, after the two sides drew 1-1.

“The usual story happened, because chances were created but we didn’t take them,” Mosimane insists.

“How do I sort out the finishing [problem] of South African football? Siyabonga Nomvete is the only one who scored [many goals] and I had him in the field! He scored 20 goals and he is here. You can’t say this team doesn’t create chances, hey. Let’s play fair! I only have the players for seven days,” he says.

‘Jingles’ says South Africa must go back to the drawing board in terms of the country’s football development programmes.

“You see South Africa we don’t want to accept reality – things have not been going well for us since we won the 1996 Afcon, but we are not changing the formula. We have a problem but you are going the same way; we must do things right in terms of our development programmes. We don’t want to accept that the world is catching up with us. We don’t want to accept that we are not scoring goals. We don’t want to accept that our development programmes are not good.

“We don’t want to accept … let’s change the programmes. It took Spain 80 years to win the World Cup, but they had to change their programmes. What programmes do we have? We don’t change the formula yet we expect different results. Whether I’m here or not they will miss the chances. Let’s be shrewd on our development programmes,” he continues.

Mosimane also responded to growing calls that he must step down.

“Well, I don’t have to respond to what people say … it is not for me to say I must stay or go! The pressure is there, it has been there and it will be there. There are still 15 points to play for and there’s gonna be pressure, okay?”

Bafana travel to Botswana to meet the Zebras on June 9 in the second match of their 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign and, despite the team’s strikers fluffing the opportunities that come their way, Mosimane says Bafana can bring maximum points home.

“We have to go to Botswana and it won’t be easy, but we believe we can take the three points there.

“The team is fighting. It is not as if we are losing and it is okay. No, no, there is a little bit of integrity,” Mosimane adds.