get on match day,” snapped Da Gama after his off-form charges suffered a 0-2 loss to Leopards in a one-sided Limpopo derby, their second defeat of the season.
Stars got a financial boost from the Royal Bafokeng kingdom this season after years of operating on a shoestring budget – but on the pitch, the team has failed to rise to the occasion.
Kapini marked his return to the team in the most unceremonious of fashions when he and his defence let in soft goals in a match played under scorching conditions at Giyani Stadium.
Countryman Bekithemba Ndlovu remains confined to the sidelines but with the disastrous showing of his teammates he could be thrown into the deep end in a fortnight.
The derby-full weekend saw Kaizer Chiefs suffer their first loss of the season, a 0-1 defeat to BIDvest Wits in a Johannesburg derby, while the thrilling Free State derby between Free State Stars and Bloemfontein Celtic ended in 1-1 stalemate but was enough to push Celtic to the top of the league.
A Norman Smith brace condemned Amazulu to a 1-2 loss to Golden Arrows in a Kwazulu Natal derby while Jomo Cosmos beat Gauteng rivals by a similar scoreline.
Terror’ Fanteni’s double earned Wilfred Mugeyi’s Ajax Cape Town a second successive victory as they beat Benoni Premier 2-1 while countryman Ian Gorowa continued his impressive run at the Moroka Swallows helm when his ‘Birds’ earned a point on the road, away to Santos in Cape Town after a 1-1 draw.
League champions Mamelodi Sundowns’ quest to clinch the Confederations Cup suffered a setback in Cameroon when they fell by a solitary goal to Astres de Douala on Saturday. Douala won courtesy of a hotly disputed penalty. – CAJ News
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