Coach Larsen applauded the MEC for the yearly competition. ‘MEC, I thank you for putting your money where your mouth is and giving us the Premier’s Cup’ he said, after which he said he looked forward to the competition ahead of the upcoming PSL season. The draw took place, with Amazulu FC being frawn first. Which meant that they proceed to the first semi final on Sunday 29 July at King Zwelithini Stadium.
This sparked a hard drive in the last minutes of play to equalise. After a good effort in which we dominated possession and position, in which we had a number of attempts at goal, the final whistle was blown. Unfortunately we ended up losing the game and missing out on points. We have a week now to prepare for a game at home against TS Galaxy who are in their own fight to remain in the Top 8 for the season. Tomorrow afternoon we face the Team of Choice at the Harry Gwala Stadium in our mid week fixture of the DStv Premiership. The game is set to kick off at 15h00.
The remaining draw was as follows: Saturday – Real Kings vs Uthongathi FC (11:00) Saturday – Richards Bay Fc vs Royal Eagles FC (13:00) Saturday – Maritzburg Utd vs Lamontville Golden Arrows (15:00) The above mentioned games will be played at Princess magogo stadium. Winner of the above mentioned game move on to Sunday’s games which will take place at King Zwelithini stadium. 1st semi final – 09:00 2nd semi final – 11:30 Final at 15:00 We would like to see as much support as we can get together for this pre-season competition.
Another 3 points in the bag and a strong win once again for the boys The next game in the Shield competition is next weekend, against Maritzburg United. Another super sub goal in the 82nd minute from Lerato Lamola secured 3 important home points in the ABSA Premiership this afternoon. The first half seemed to begin relatively slowly. All of the action was in the midfield with neither side making any telling plays. Venter provided the first promising shot after some well executed build up play. With The Citizens not threatening on the field, we opened up some opportunities. Our second from Sibeko in the 33rd minute off a well weighted cross from Matloga.
As part of the departments initiatives they have also assisted in setting up 64 smaller football clubs within the Province, as well as launched a new u15 and womens’ open league to improve the influence that sport and soccer has on communities. Both her and Mr Ngwenya were vocal that the dream would to be to see 4 KZN sides in the PSL as well as the NFD.
We put some early pressure on the visitors and continued to attack the goals from different angles. Quick one two’s in the box lead to Furman handeling the ball in the box and we were awarded a penalty. Mutizwa slotted home the opportunity and we continued the fight. We leveled the score four minutes later when Parusnath headed in a cross from Venter. We had a number of opportunities to score but Williams did well when called on and the defense of SuperSport was quick to fall back in numbers to defend their goals. In the closing stages of the game, Mokoena decided to take a chance with a long range shot.
We performed below our normal standards throughout the match. Even though we were not at our best we managed to create enough chances to win the match. Besides scoring from a penalty we had a great opportunity to kill the match off in the 90th minute. Mutizwa went 1v1 with the keeper and hit the upright. The opponent turned over possession and won a free kick in our defensive zone and furthermore conceded a corner. The resulting corner was headed into our own net by our own player and it was 1:1 and the 90 minutes came to an end. The match went to extra 30 minutes.
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