I must say I really enjoyed the games over the past weekend, mainly because I was supporting the underdogs and secondly because the games were actually very interesting to watch.Let’s begin with Maritzburg United against Ajax Cape Town, what a stunning goal by Gary Goldstone in that game, beautiful it must be said, if our players were brave enough to shoot more like that more often, we would have more goals in the league. The second goal was also a beauty and this game proved that sometimes hard work can be more effective than just talent; the best part of this result is that it threw the league race wide open.
The walloping of Supersport United by Free State Stars was rather pleasantly surprising. There are two main things I took from that game, the first being that Dennis Onyango is no longer the keeper he used to be two years ago. His reflexes are five seconds slower and maybe he is hoping to blind strikers with his bright coloured outfit, unfortunately it did not work instead he showed us how he can be so unsportsmanlike by kicking Sthembiso Ngcobo while he was on the ground, he deserved to walk but mysteriously he and Ngcobo were both cautioned we all know it’s not the PSL if there are no referee blunders and secondly that Free State Stars are running a good business.
They have this uncanny ability of unearthing players who they sell to the lazy Gauteng clubs for big bucks and make tidy profits hence they are not worried about losing Diyo Sibisi whom they reportedly sold to Mamelodi Sundowns for 2.8 million rands.
Their two strikers, Sthembiso Ngcobo and Tebelo Mofokeng were very impressive, they sold Mbuyane and Tshabalala to Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs respectively for a bagful of cash and I bet you they will make another big sale at the end of the current season, very good business Ntate Mokoena.
Still on the issue, how on earth did Sundowns agree to pay 2.8 million rands for a striker who has scored only one goal this season? Motsepe never ceases to amaze me, especially because I don’t believe Sundowns need another striker with Katlego Mphela, Mbesuma, Monterio, Zuma and we all know that Moriri is played as a second striker.
Sunday gave us a rather amazing game in terms of missed opportunities, especially by one Sibusiso Hadebe, a so called professional player. He missed chances that even Wasui Ipayi could score, if you don’t know, Ipayi is the famous player who once played for Chiefs and got the distinction of being the worst ever import to SA football.
Abia Nale on the other hand impressed me in this game, much more than all the other games I have seen before and this player is definitely going to keep Muhsin at Naturena, he is a creator of opportunities and players of much lesser talent like Ogbona are going to be more dangerous from now on. Defensively though, Chiefs are look to be still disorganized.
I am still trying to understand why Pirates and Chiefs had to go through all that for Mthembu and can someone come out and tell us who is the real coach at Arrows, this gentleman from Brazil seems to be calling the shots from where I stand, I thought fronting happened only in BEE deals.
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