South Africa have looked good recently and this is the match that will determine the mood of South Africa for the rest of the month. If South Africa win today, it will breath optimism throughout an entire country, that something miraculous is possible. If they are beaten, the mood of a country will change, but only for a day or two.

A win for South Africa today isn't life or death - but I promise you, if South Africa win, it will be something special. But they face a Mexico side that have looked very good recently. Having lost to England and beaten Italy, they have surprised a few on their way to South Africa, but we suspect, not themselves.

Friendly pre-tournament matches are just that, friendly and we shouldn't think that because South Africa have done so well that they are going to win. They will have an advantage today, but that it will be slight and it won't last ninety minutes.

Prediction

These two teams have met three times before with South Africa winning one, Mexico winning the other two, but they could have played 50 times with Mexico winning all of them, we are still going to predict a win for South Africa, because we want a win for South Africa and because we still think Mexico will go through even if they lose today. It just has home win written all over it.

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End Note

We wrote above how if South Africa win, it will be something special. The irony of that statement is, South Africa is special and they don't need to win a football match to know that, they just need to look back in their recent history. However, the game is loved in South Africa and I swear, the country will rock tonight if they do win.