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Leopards’ striker, Joseph Mhlongo.

Can Leopards maul the Amakhosi?

 

The much-awaited Absa Premiership League match between Black Leopards and Kaizer Chiefs will be played at the Thohoyandou Stadium tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon.

The match will be, for several reasons, as good as a cup final. Kaizer Chiefs will go into it with the aim of maintaining their position on the log standings. The Amakhosi, as they are also known, are shining on top of the log with 41 points. Chiefs have lost only two of the 17 matches they have played to date.

On the other hand, the match is a matter of life and death for Black Leopards. Lidoda Duvha are fighting for survival. The Thohoyandou side are currently in the second-last position on the log. They are in a 16-point tie with the other Limpopo-based side, Polokwane City, languishing at the bottom of the log.

Leopards are still to win a league match under the guidance of the team’s new head coach, Mr Kevin Johnson. They lost three matches in a row, including last Sunday’s 2-4 defeat at the hands of Bloemfontein Celtic, with Mr Johnson seated on the team’s technical bench.

Whether the Chiefs’ defenders, Daniel Cardoso, Eric Mathoho and Siyabonga Ngezana, will have enough strength to stop the Leopards’ forwards, Mwape Musonda, Lesedi Kapinga, Thuso Phala and Joseph Mhlongo, remains to be seen.

Mr Ernst Middendorp, the Chiefs’ head coach, has already won the Coach of the Month award three times in succession this season. The match will start at 15:30.

 

 

Date:16 January 2020

By: Frank Mavhungu

Frank is a Human Resources Manager at the Department of Public Works in Limpopo. He is the longest serving correspondent of the Mirror, having joined us at the end of 1990.  He mainly writes sports reports and resides at Tsianda Village. In 2004, Frank won the National Castle League Award, an award for the best reporter in the SAB league in South Africa.

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