Desperate Spurs now banking on Richards Bay slip ups in struggle for survival
A desperate Cape Town Spurs is now banking on the team above them, Richards Bay to slip up in the struggle for DSTV Premiership survival. After yet another loss in the league, Ernest Middendorp and his charges are now resorting to cheering whoever is playing against their KZN-based relegation rivals.
“We have a game on Friday against Richards Bay at the moment we have to be fans of Kaizer Chiefs that they do the job tomorrow and take the game against Richards Bay seriously,” Middendorp said after the loss to Sekhukhune United on Saturday.
If the undependable Kaizer Chiefs do Spurs a favour on Sunday afternoon, then the gap can be reduced to two points with a win over Richards Bay on Friday evening.
“Richards Bay play AmaZulu, let’s wait and see what happens but we can talk and talk. We have to show another way of handling a soccer game, you can’t make obvious mistakes,” the German coach stressed.
Goalkeeper Zama Dlamini made a costly obvious mistake in the game against Sekhukhune United. Asekho Tiwani’s shot from the halfway line might get the Puskas committee interested, but Dlamini should have done much better than watch the ball sail over him and into the net. It was Tiwani’s first goal in the DSTV Premiership for high-flying Sekhukhune.
“It’s now game number four in a row where we make individual mistakes bringing us in a position not to come back,” lamented Middendorp, who was hired to save the Cape Town club from automatic relegation , at the very least.
With six games to go, Cape Town Spurs sit five points behind Richards Bay who have a game in hand. It will be a bitter battle to the end for Middendorp and his Urban Warriors, but it is out of their hands.
