Cape Town City’s title credentials will be tested
McCarthy’s side moves to within five points of table-topping Wits with a game in hand
Benni McCarthy will know over the next 10 days whether his Cape Town City side can mount a serious Premiership title challenge with home-and-away league clashes against Mamelodi Sundowns‚ and a visit to BidVest Wits. City moved to within five points of table-topping Wits on Saturday‚ with a game in hand‚ following a battling 3-2 victory over bottom side Maritzburg United in which they were comfortably the better side‚ but allowed the visitors to stay in the contest. City visit Sundowns on Wednesday and then have an away clash with Wits next Saturday‚ before hosting Sundowns on March 5 in what will be a season-defining week for the team. “We are fighting to stay in the hunting pack for honours. We know we are a little bit out of our depth‚ but listen‚ no-one told Leicester [City] that they were out of their depth‚” McCarthy said. “They just believed and kept on rolling game by game. You try and win every game that you can and then you never know what happens at the top. “That is the ...
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