The South African Football Association (Safa) will motel a proper criticism with Fifa over the referee's performance in South Africa's pivotal World Cup qualifying loss to Ghana on Sunday night time.
South Africa lost 1-0 against Ghana after a contentious penalty changed into transformed. Bafana Bafana wished a draw to improve to the third and final round of African qualifying.
The Black Stars' tight victory allowed them to qualify for the African World Cup play-offs with the aid of the tiniest of margins, putting off South Africa from first place within the organization based handiest on dreams scored.
The penalty become provided when Daniel Amartey of Leicester City went down after what appeared to be a slight contact from defender Rushine de Reuck, who became booked for his undertaking.
"We could be writing to each [Confederation of African Football] Caf and Fifa - firstly to analyze how the game changed into handled and secondly to mission a number of those choices," Safa CEO Tebogo Monthlante stated on Monday.
"As we did ultimate night time, we've got already registered with the healthy commissioner that we can be making a formal complaint."
Safa is worried approximately the legitimacy of both the judgment and the overall performance of the Senegalese officiating squad, led through referee Maguette Ndiaye, according to Monthlante.
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"We are very disheartened with the aid of their moves and we cannot permit it destroy the gamers - whilst we have the chance to task, we will mission," he added.
