Pitso happy to share the spoils
STALEMATE: DROPPED POINTS DOESN’T FAZE MOSIMANE
Sundowns and Chippa finish their interrupted match at Loftus Versfeld next morning.
Mamelodi Sundowns squandered a chance to move to the top of the Absa Premiership table for the first time this season yesterday, playing to a goalless draw at home against Chippa United in a two-day affair.
The encounter resumed at 10am, picking up where it left off the night before, with the sides locked at 0-0 in the 41st minute only for power failure to hit Loftus Versveld on Tuesday.
Masandawana got proceedings back underway in typical Bafana Ba Style fashion with Percy Tau running rings round defenders, but failing to trouble goalkeeper Daniel Akpeyi.
Downs coach Pitso Mosimane brought on Leonardo Castro and Teko Modise in the 74th minute and the duo’s combination almost gave Sundowns the lead three minutes after they came on. Modise found the Colombian from wide on the left, and his strike was palmed away by the alert Akpeyi.
Mosimane said although he would’ve loved to move to No 1 on the table, he was happy with a point.
“I don’t want to complain, but I want to talk about reality and reality is that it was an awkward game. We were throwing everyone in. We lost a game in hand ... it is gone now. We took out a point, but you also have to understand that you can’t get everything that you wish for,” said Mosimane.
“We are okay, we dropped two points and we are okay with one point ... we have to dig deeper now,” he added.
There was no dancing in sight for Chippa coach Dan ‘‘Dance’’ Malesela who said he expected the match to be dull affair in its second day.
“When you have two sides who play almost the same type of football, you would expect very tight games, very small margins in terms of the scorelines. With the lights (going out), it becomes very difficult for the players to adjust … I was expecting this, something very dull.
‘’I was teasing Tau and said how did you get Man-of-the-Match because there was no Man-of-theMatch,” said a cheerful Malesela.