SUNDOWNS RAMPANT
Chiefs to ramp up pressure, says coach Steve Komphela
Chiefs will maintain their winning form and not count on disruptions at Mamelodi Sundowns
Keeping the runaway Mamelodi Sundowns in check and stopping them from romping away to the league title will be all about pressure‚ says Kaizer Chiefs coach Steve Komphela. But his first priority is to see that his team maintain winning form‚ he said after the 1-1 draw with Ajax Cape Town on Saturday. "It’s all about pressure‚" Komphela said. "We’ve got to win our own matches and put pressure on them to win all their remaining matches. That should be the perspective. Whether it is possible? Yes it is possible. "Can they do it? Yes‚ they can‚" Komphela said. "But they still have to! So we have to be in a position where we win our own matches and put pressure on them." Komphela said there could still come a time in the season when things started to go wrong for Sundowns‚ who are fourth in the Premier Soccer League standings, but are just three points from the top of the table and have a bevy of matches in hand over the other teams. Sundowns have 32 points from 14 games and will only re...
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