With a comfortable 0-2 victory on the road in the bag, the Central University of Technology will look to string a series of victories together. Goals from Cameron Chweu and Keitumetse Mabathoana gave the visitors from Bloemfontein a full three points, which may prove vital going forward.
“Away games are always tough so we need to plan and prepare accordingly,” said team manager Lesedi Thue.
While a winning start gives CUT momentum for the rest of the tournament, Thue also felt that they could have done better and will need to improve in some areas going forward. “We need to improve on capitalising on our chances and killing the game off,” he said.
Indeed, they will need to be more clinical if they are going to overcome the challenges ahead. CUT will, however, take heart from their defence, which successfully negotiated its first test. If the opening round of Varsity Football is anything to go by, an airtight defence may be the difference between success and failure in 2016.
Fifteen goals were scored across Monday night’s four matches at an average of 3.75 per match. After all, attack wins you matches, but defence wins you titles, as Man United legend, Sir Alex Ferguson would say.
The excitement of victory is expected, but CUT are not getting ahead of themselves. “The mood is high in the camp and everyone is excited and confident for the next encounter,” said Thue.
CUT next face a daunting trip to former finalists University of Johannesburg, who put six goals past NWU-Mafikeng in the opening round. CUT will need to pull out all the stops come Monday if they are to emerge with any points from the encounter.
By Sam Styrax
