Chiefs too mighty for Cape Town City
KAIZER Chiefs remain unbeaten and at the top of the PSL standings after two second-half goals gave them a 2-1 win over Cape Town City at Newlands yesterday.
Amakhosi have 10 points from four games and lead Wits – who play rookies Stellenbosch FC tonight – by four, while City drop two places to eighth on the table with five points.
City disappeared in the second half and paid the price as first Daniel Cardoso cancelled out Kermit Erasmus’ early first-half goal and then substitute Kearyn Baccus grabbing the winner with 13 minutes to play to once again give the Soweto giants a deserved victory in the Mother City.
City needed only four minutes to open the scoring through roving forward Erasmus.
A long diagonal ball found leftback Ebrahim Seedat who passed on to him, and he picked it up on the stretch and then stepped inside of defender Eric Mathoho inside the 18-yard box before firing a low shot that caught out goalkeeper Daniel Akpeyi at his right-hand post.
Erasmus has been used to scoring against the Glamour Boys during his time with Orlando Pirates, and the 29-year-old nearly scored a brace in the 24th minute with a powerful downward header that was cleared off the line by Mathoho, but not before Siphelele Mthembu had the ball in the back of the net but was adjudged to have been off-side.
The big striker, who was taken out of the game by Chiefs in the second league encounter last season, looked sharp as the lone man upfront and lapped up the atmosphere created by the 20 000 strong crowd made up mainly of Chief supporters.
Erasmus came close again in the 37th minute with a shot across the face of goal that Akpeyi was able to parry back into play and have cleared.
Chiefs thought they scored the equaliser minutes into the second half after a mad scramble in the big box saw left-wing Khama Billiat find the back of Peter Leeuwenburgh’s net, but the referee disallowed it after consulting with his assistant.
The visitors were playing with a lot more intent and piled on the pressure, but still lacked the accuracy to draw level. Billiat created a chance, but fired wide as the clock showed 20 minutes left to play.
City weren’t as threatening as they were in the first half and as a result they let their guard down and it cost them their unbeaten record.