South Africa 2-1 Angola Highlights, Africa Cup Of Nations 2025: Bafana Bafana Secure Gritty Win To Kickstart Campaign

Welcome to the live coverage of the first Group B match of AFCON 2025 at the Marrakech Stadium in Morocco. Stay tuned with us for the live score and real-time updates of the match.

The South Africa vs Angola, Africa Cup of Nations 2025 match will be streamed in India on the Fancode platform.

Mahmood Ismail's whistle gives the green signal to begin the proceeding and South Africa gets the ball rolling in the first Group B match of the AFCON Cup 2025.

That was a very good save from Angolan goal-keeper Hugo Marques as South Africa's Lyle Foster guides a cross from the side with a header but Marques was agile enough to guard the attempt.

Goaaalll...! Oswin Appollis strike for South Africa. Shabby work from Angolan defenders resulting in a loose ball to Appollis and he pounced on it with a right footed shot from the centre of the box into the net.

Angola fights back with a leveller just minutes after the first goal from South Africa. Fredy Angola makes good use of the free and makes a lovely assist to Manuel Cafumana who completes it a scintillating right footer straight into the bottom left corner of the nets.

That's the end of a riveting half of an enthralling encounter between two equally matched teams. South Africa took an initial but it was neutralized by a Angola minutes and now both teams enter their dug outs at half-time with one goal each.

The players are on the field for the 2nd half of the game. Both teams are in a stalemate and will be looking forward to take a lead and ending up with 3 points.

Tshepang Moremi strikes cuts inside a long ball from Teboho Mokoena and fires a goal. But the referee instantly goes for a VAR review and finds out that it was an offside leaving the South African players dejected.

Angola gets a corner because of a powerful shot by Maestro which was block by South Africa's defence. Unfortunately, ANG could not covert the chance into a goal and the scores are still level at 1-1.

Tshepang Moremi passes a beautiful ball to Lyle Foster on the box's edge and Foster fires it into the right side of the net to give a vital lead to his team.

That's the full-time whistle and with it, South Africa overcomes the Angolan challenge with a 2-1 victory. South Africa gets the crucial 3 points with this win and kick starts their campaign on a positive note.