Orlando Pirates cruised to a 4-1 victory over Stellenbosch in a DStv Premiership clash yesterday at Orlando Stadium.
One of Pirates’ downfalls in recent seasons was their inability to finish games. This time around, they sucked the life of the match with a Maela goal, which came from Stellies goalkeeper Sage Stephens’s blunder. His failure to deal with a Monnapule Saleng cross presented Maela with a chance to kick the ball into an open net to give Bucs a two-goal lead going to the break.
In the second stanza, concerns about Pirates not converting their chances were answered when Erasmus placed a Saleng cross in goal and Ndlondlo’s low shot from outside the box made it 4-0. Steve Barker’s side pulled one back to leave the score at 4-1; Mervin Boji directed Qobolwakhe’s corner past Chaine. Pirates controlled the game until the final whistle.
As a club trying to establish itself in the Premiership, Stellenbosh are paying the price of selling their best players as the team looks off, a shadow of the side that finished in fourth place last campaign. They face the prospect of being relegation contenders as they are in 15th place.
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