Leopards and Amatuks in 2-2 draw

By Frank Mavhungu

Black Leopards once again failed to collect the maximum points in front of their home crowd when they played to a 2-2 draw with University of Pretoria FC in their Motsepe Foundation Championship League match that was played at the Thohoyandou Stadium on Saturday.

Lidoda duvha are still to win a league match this year. They are currently lying at the bottom of the log with 13 points.

The head coach of the team, Mr Rodwell Dhlakama, said any thoughts about relegation were premature when a chance to fight for promotion still existed. He appealed to the fans not to press the panic button.

The Zimbabwean mentor said that while he was impressed with the team’s overall performance, he was equally realistic about the fact that a performance without a result was only good for the eyes.

Mr Dhlakama said that they were going to do their homework and that they would make sure that they won most of their remaining matches. His counterpart from the University of Pretoria, or Amatuks, Mr Tlisane Motaung, blamed his players for the poor result. He said that they could have won the match, had the players obeyed his instructions.

Motaung said that his players had started to play defensive football after scoring their sec- ond goal early in the last half. He said that the players had turned a deaf ear and continued to play defensive football when he was instructing them not to defend from their own half.

Amatuks opened their account in the 24th minute via Ayanda Mvambi. The home side found the equaliser through Tiklas Thutlwa, who finished with a rocket after the keeper had mishandled the ball. The visitors from Pretoria then reclaimed the lead in the 64th minute. Kamohelo Pheeane hooked in the ball after receiving a square pass from Rodney Ramagalela. Siphelele Ntshangase scored the equalising goal for Leopards on the stroke of full time.