The Boksburg Football Club collected four points from a possible six over two top four rivals in the Eastern Local Football Association Veteran League Division 2 in a space of three days to cement its place in the top three of the league with the season heading into a festive break.
The high-flying Blues completed what has been their best week of the season thus far with a thumping 3-1 away win over log leaders Kempton Park on December 9. This followed a hard-fought three-all draw against Bonaero Park also in Kempton Park on December 7.
Despite playing Kempton, the Bonaero result could easily be viewed as equally impressive after Ernest Seforo’s men rallied back from a 3-0 half-time deficit.
The home side, taking full advantage of Boksburg’s defence’s disarray, left the visitors shell-shocked with three unanswered goals in one half.
The Blues had to make changes fast, and drastic ones. Seforo, who is the side’s player-coach, obliged.
“I took notes during the first half,” he said.
“I completely restructured everything during half-time: from our formation to the players on the park. All I told the guys is we were going for full-on attack in the second half.”
Seforo’s teammates responded, Thabiso Sebiloane and Tshepiso Lephoto in particular, with their goals coming either side of an own goal to leave matters level at three-all. Speaking of Bonaero’s quick start, Seforo commented: “Their forwards’ pace was too much for our backline in the first half, they ran us rugged. We started with four defenders and they still scored three, so I had to replace three of our defenders to reinforce.
“We came out strong in the second half and turned the game completely around, their goalkeeper was their best player of the half because we could’ve scored more and completed the turnaround but his brilliant saves kept them in the game.”
CBC struggles
Unlike their neighbours, CBC Old Boys have struggled from the kick-off of the season and little has changed as the local outfit remained without a win after six rounds of play.
Old Boys, also in action on Monday and Wednesday like their neighbours Boksburg, conceded 11 goals from the two fixtures: their week began with a 4-1 home loss to Kempton before an Olypmia side ran riot and put seven past them in a 7-2 loss in Bedfordview on Wednesday.
Centre-half Roger Loring netted the consolation goal in the Kempton game, while the pair of Leonardo de Abrew and Charlie Monareng netted in the Olympia loss.
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