To be honest, it’s very difficult to identify three hot Orlando Pirates players who can trouble Kaizer Chiefs in the Soweto Derby at the FNB Stadium on Saturday.
That’s mainly because of how inconsistent the Buccaneers have been in the DStv Premiership, where they trail log leaders Mamelodi Sundowns by eight points after drawing five and winning three of their first nine league matches.
Mntambo operates on the right of the midfield and gives Bucs a lot of options going forward. At his best he provides a good pass to the strikers but is also vital in set pieces and is the club’s trusted penalty taker. If Chiefs give space to Mntambo to have time on the ball he will hurt them in so many ways. The Bucs midfielder often tries to do too much and loses the ball unnecessarily when the going gets tough.For reasons hard to explain, Hotto has struggled to convince coaches Mandla Ncikazi and Fadlu Davids that he’s the player who should start all Bucs' games. He started in two of Pirates' nine games and came on as a substitute in the other six and sat on the bench unused against Royal AM.
The Namibian left winger is a player with a temperament for big matches and has showed that with his other performances against Amakhosi, even when he’s not the one scoring the goals. Hotto should keep Chiefs’ right-back Njabulo Blom very busy on Saturday, especially with the support he will get from Paseka Mako behind him.Mabasa has been blowing hot and cold but on his day he can pose big trouble to any opposition defence.
The only problem with Mabasa is that he comes to this match low on confidence after failing to score in Bucs’ last five league matches. It doesn’t help Mabasa’s cause that he also enters the derby having been dropped by Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos in his latest squad, but on his day the big man can be lethal.
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