Pitso targets knockout treble

Sundowns are nine points behind Kaizer Chiefs at the top of the table, following Tuesday night’s 1-1 draw with Bidvest Wits at the Moses Mabhida Stadium, and face a hectic fixture schedule both at the end of this year and going into 2020, due to their participation in the Caf Champions League.

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Masandawana also came into the Wits game just three days after beating Maritzburg United to lift the Telkom Knockout title, and it will be tough for them to catch Chiefs, who also have the benefit of a season free of continental football to focus on their domestic efforts.

“We have a different program, we are not well rested, playing after 15 days,” Mosimane told SuperSport TV after the Wits game.

“We won a cup yesterday (on Saturday), we can’t look at other people … if we win the Nedbank Cup the Champions League and the Telkom, how bad can it be, that’s a treble!”

Mosimane also criticised Lyle Lakay and Motjeka Madisha for their involvement in the Wits equaliser on Tuesday, allowing Deon Hotto too much time to cut in and swing in a cross that Deon Hotto headed home.

“A point is fair, we could have scored, Mshishi (Themba Zwane) could have scored … Madisha hit the posed … but … we played a very good team, and if you look at these teams and the way it has been the last six or seven years, I am happy with a point away, even though we wanted to win and could have won.

“Hotto doesn’t even have a right foot, but you know the players were not listening, I told Lyle he is only left-footed. Sifiso Hlanti has also never kicked with his right foot, it is the same with Tebogo Langerman. He (Lakay) said ‘ok, but he went a bit to his right’, and I said ‘no, he drops the shoulder then brings the ball in’. But we can’t only put it on him (Lakay), Madisha also knew Hotto is left footed, it was a collective mistake, a powerful cross and a good header.”

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