Gambia will be unable to defend on their home turf, said Bafana Bafana coach Shakes Mashaba ahead of his team's departure on Tuesday afternoon for their 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Saturday. The South Africans meet Gambia at the Independence Stadium in Bakau in a Group M encounter.Bafana, on just three points, desperately need the win to keep their slim Gabon 2017 hopes alive.Mashaba shakes up squadBafana Bafana coach Shakes Mashaba says he is giving other players a chance, with one eye on the World Cup qualifiers, after a disappointing campaign in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. Gambia is in an even worse position than South Africa on only two points and are likely to play far less defensively than the side that put Mashaba's team under pressure, holding Bafana to a 0-0 draw in their opening match in Durban a year ago."Gambia have got to come out playing now," Mashaba said after his squad's training session at the University of Johannesburg's Soweto campus on Tuesday."They are going to open up - they must."And that's where we want them.Shakes has a 'Diamond' in the rough for GambiaThe name that stood out when Shakes Mashaba announced his squad for Saturday's Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Gambia was that of Chippa United right-back Diamond Thopola, and not just for the sparkling nature of such a moniker. "When we played them here they had clearly come for a draw. Nothing else. They never attacked."They had nine players in their own half the whole time."Following three draws and a defeat from four matches, Bafana can finish with a maximum of nine points should they beat Gambia and then Mauritania at home in September.They also have to rely on Cameroon losing both their last two games to qualify for Gabon...