Wits take control of title chase
Sundowns lose solid two games-in-hand advantage
"Stoke City" appear set to win the Absa Premiership title. If Bidvest Wits, — compared in playing style to English roughneck specialists Stoke last week by title-rivalling Mamelodi Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane — win the 2016-17 PSL, they will look back at these past 10 days as the period that clinched their first title in a 96-year history. And after Thursday night’s clinical, and more sophisticated than Stoke, 1-0 PSL win against Orlando Pirates, through substitute Cuthbert Malajila’s 57th-minute winner at Bidvest Stadium, you have to say it now: they just might. Wits muscled out a Pirates who had lost one league and cup game in 11 under new coach Kjell Jonevret to open a three-point gap at the top over defending champions Sundowns. This is a league season of swirling fortunes and it seems destined for the tightest of finishes. But with four games to go for the two teams at the top, after the past 10 days, it is advantage Wits. There were doubts over their title credentials when t...
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