Eustáquio’s stoppage-time heist mugs Bafana – But leave World Cup with heads held high
FOR 91 minutes and 59 seconds, Bafana Bafana did the unthinkable and made it look almost ordinary. Then Stephen Eustáquio remembered he was Portuguese-trained, Canadian-capped, and entirely without mercy, and ruined everybody's evening with one perfectly struck football. It arrived in the 92nd minute, the cruellest postcode in the sport. A loose, bouncing clearance fell into space at the top of the box, and the Toronto FC metronome met it first-time, low and true, past a despairing Ronwen Williams and into the bottom corner. Los Angeles Stadium erupted in maple-leaf delirium. Fourteen thousand kilometres away, South Africa exhaled the long,…
