Limpopo coach Strada Dhlamini was left bitterly disappointed after his side’s 5-1 capitulation to defending Varsity Football champions UP-Tuks.
“We gave away far too many easy goals. It was not a pretty sight. A lot of players didn’t come to the party,” said Dhlamini after his side were given a 5-1 football lesson, at the Tuks stadium in Pretoria.
Dhlamini said that their loss had nothing to do with the players not executing their game plan. He said that it has to do with happens during particular moments in the game.
“In the first goal we allowed a Tuks player to put a cross in, we still allowed him to have a free header. The second goal was a throw-in, we allowed the shortest guy to head the ball, then there was another header into the net.
“The reaction and organization of those goals requires one to look at it and try to rectify it. The third goal was scrappy, it is not a goal anyone would want to concede. All those goals were a case of them being more alert than we were,” lamented Dhlamini.
He said that he must check with the players about the lack of communication, he added that it is important for players to constantly communicate with one another to show each other aspects of the game which they come across in the field of play.
Dhlamini said that some of the teams in Varsity Football are blessed with speedy and skillful wingers.
He said that the left-winger Richard Moremi from Tuks gave them a torrid time on the flanks, but Ivan Tleane, his right-back was equal to the task.
He said that it is an aspect that he will look into this week at training.
“Before this game we were at number eight, now we are number seven, we have to look at that and take it as a positive sign. We have to move forward on that and make our lives a whole lot better,” concluded Dhlamini.
Clyde Kgatla scored a solitary goal for the men in blue and won the Samsung Super Striker title, his second in two weeks.
After the fourth round matches, The Men from the North find themselves at seventh spot on the Varsity Football log. They will play University of the Western Cape next Monday in the Mother City.
By Noko Pela
