“Where are the rules now? And you will tell me, 'yes, that’s for both teams'. I don’t think so. I think Benin has already trained in that stadium because they were here before us.

“So it’s all nice to say, 'follow the rules, follow this'. We have to follow everything but we have the right to train today [Monday] in the stadium where the match takes place and we can’t. This is not honest and this is not correct.”

South Africa's 2-0 victory against Lesotho at Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane on Friday put them in the driving seat in group C.

The top-placed team in nine groups reaches the first 48-team World Cup in Mexico, Canada and the US, with the four best runners-up going into a playoff.

However, a defeat against Benin will see that team leapfrog to the top of the log and could also see Nigeria, if they beat Zimbabwe at home, just a point behind Bafana.