Bafana are a team reborn under the Belgian mentor and got their 2025 AFCON campaign up and running with a 2-1 victory over Angola – in his 50th game in charge.

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Broos steered his side to third place at the last AFCON and more recently secured Bafana’s place at the 2026 World Cup.

Now with a tough test against seven-time AFCON winners Egypt on Monday, Broos has downplayed his team’s achievements, insisting they are only as good as their last game.

While Bafana were comfortable winners over Angola, Egypt needed a stoppage time winner from Mohamed Salah to see off Zimbabwe 2-1.

Broos, who won AFCON with Cameroon in 2017, said in the Citizen: “This is a nice record. But I don’t look at that. The more unbeaten matches we go, the closer we are to defeat – this is normal.

“It’s not that we are trying to reach a certain target of being unbeaten. We just want to win every game. That’s our philosophy, and we are trying to show that on the pitch, like we did in the second half. Again, it’s very nice and we are happy with it.

“But if you ask me whether I want to go more games unbeaten or win the AFCON, then you know the answer. So yes, it’s nice to have that record, but for me it’s the same – no more, no less.”

Broos added: “It was lucky for us that we won that game, so that there was no damage. But that can’t happen anymore, and it won’t happen. This is not the kind of team that thinks things will be easy when they start a game.

“They showed that in the previous months. I am happy with the wake-up call and that we won the game.”