The Greek Queens reign supreme over Diepkloof Ladies
Diepkloof Ladies fail to utilise the advantage that Croesus Ladies was one woman down for the entire 45 minutes of the second stanza of their Gauteng Sasol Women's League game.
Table-topping Croesus Ladies continue to show their brute side of football when they thumped a hapless Diepkloof Ladies by five goals to no reply during a Gauteng Sasol Women’s League Stream A match played at the Nike Centre on June 11.
The mean Greek Queens could have easily scored more than a dozen goals on the day had its front woman Portia Lesego Dube not messed up several scoring opportunities in a one-on-one with the opposition keeper and other chances that went begging from Makgotso Lepota and Lerato ‘Pele’ Ruele.
The opening goal for the Northview High School-based Greek Queens came through the slick boot of Dube in just under five minutes of play and thereafter it rained goal after goal as Tshidi Mokabane added the second and Dube got her brace with a third goal.
In the dying minutes of the first half, Dube from the farming wilderness of the Free State province, who was a thorn in the flesh of the ‘Work in Progress’ Diepkloof side, got her hattrick of the day and the two sides went into the oranges break with Croesus leading the scoreboard 4–0.
The second stanza of the game resumed with the red-carding of one of the Queens after a foul on the Diepkloof Ladies’ left winger, resulting in the Queens having to play the rest of the 45 minutes with one Queen short.
Lepota redeemed herself for missing the back of the net from a shot that was already written goal all over it when she hammered the final nail to the coffin of Diepkloof Ladies.
For a moment, the ‘Free State Zebra’, as the stylish number 10 [Portia Dube] has been nicknamed after her birth province and surname, lost the essence of the other players in the field when she became selfish with the ball when her teammate Nonkosi Twayise was calling for the ball in a good space to score.
The Free State Zebra instead decided to finish the job herself in the midst of two defenders and an advancing keeper that eventually blocked her attempt at scoring, to the utter frustration of the coaching staff on the touchline and substitutes on the bench.
The Greek Queens collected all the points to increase its tally at the top of the table to 27 points from 10 games and with a huge scoring rate of 51 goals. Their nearest rivals, Blu Raycon, who had the same number of games points before this, has a lower scoring rate of 34 goals.
Although Diepkloof Ladies was annihilated after it failed to take advantage of the fact that the visitors were one woman down, was in third position before this game, separated by one point from fourth place Mathathai Ladies FC.
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