The 22-year-old Mothiba scored on his debut against Angola in the four nations friendly tournament played in Zambia in March‚ and also scored in a 2-0 win against Zambia in the final of that tournament.
Mothiba was called up to Bafana’s second qualifier against Libya in Durban last month but pulled out because of injury. Tau said Mothiba was not the only player sorely missed by SA their 0-0 draw.
“We had a lot of players who were injured in that camp and had to pull out. Mothiba was part of those important players who were not there‚” he said.
Tau said he was confident that Bafana will be one of the two teams progressing from Group E to qualify for the 2019 Afcon in Cameroon.
“It’s still too early because there are still four matches to play. We are second on the log and I don’t see any problem there‚” he said.