United
regain its form again
The second round has
been no child’s play for Mbombela United. The log leaders have been struggling
with goals and regaining their first round and usual form. United came back
with a bang and celebrated their freedom day in style when they thrashed FC
Benfica a heart breaking 6-1 in the afternoon of freedom
day at Thulamahashe stadium. This was indeed a breakthrough for united after
the struggle they faced from their first game of the second round. Mbombela has
been recently struggling with form that allows them to play the football they
are used to and score many goals like they did in the first round. It seems to
be the case that mbombela has regained freedom on the very same day as South
Africans after their second round struggle.
The game started off
just fine with a cool and calm weather, favourable for a game of football. From
the very first minute you could see that fans were thrilled with mbombela’s
performance. Mlungisi’s massive shot was too hot to be saved by the goalkeeper,
which saw united leading in the early 5th minute of the game, a
classy goal you can call it. Benfica was demoralised by the early conceding but
remained strong while united kept on fighting for another goal and made the
defenders sweat. Just when benfica’s defenders thought they had it Masukupunished
them from a beautiful striking and made it 2-0 for united. Sipho was forced out
in the late 30th minute of the game due to an injury. United had to
bring in Nkanyiso which turned out positively following nkanyiso’s great
performance which saw him scoring united’s 3rd goal just before the
end of first half.
While united came
back looking for more goals, Benfica was reluctant of a loss and hoped for 3
goals to equalize, this was just a dream that the hosts didn’t want to wake up
to. At this point of the game you could have referred to united as Blomfontein
Celtics and Benfica as MamelodiSundows. The hosts fought and finally their hard
work paid as they scored in the early minutes of second half to make it 3-1.
United didn’t give benfica the chance to stay happy with their goal as Masuku
scored his brace and made it 4-1. From this moment united didn’t give benfica the
chance to play or even attempt to visit their goalkeeper area. More goals just
kept on coming for united as Issac ‘nana’ made it 5-1 few minutes after
Masuku’s brace. This became obvious that united has won the game even magic
couldn’t have happened at that moment. Mbombela seemed to have been enjoying
their freedom and making the opponents sweat and suffer. United’s 6th
goal by Bongane ‘Ronaldo’ in the late minutes of the game was a finish off. United
regained its form and benfica was just unfortunate to have suffered the
consequences. The victory was overwhelming for the log leaders, fans couldn’t
stop singing and praising their boys for such a win after a long time. United’s
coach couldn’t hide his joy as he wrote on social networks “Sekuselekancanesingeneendumiswenibafanabami,
am very proud ngabafanabami be mbombela united, keep it up boys” with united’s
logo as his profile picture. Clearly united is beginning to see play offs at
the end of the tunnel. The log leders still have 4 more games to go with 64
points on top of the log.