“Ja, no, I’m always smiling about it if other teams are talking about they ‘don’t want the championship’, or they want this.”
Given the pressure of the circumstance of the derby, it was an even bigger win. Chiefs had seen their lead cut from nine to four points from a home defeat to Maritzburg United, and booted out of the Nedbank Cup with a penalties loss against Highlands Park.
A defeat against Pirates would have seen their lead effectively cut to one point, if Sundowns won their catch-up game. That might have been game over for a team far less experienced than Downs at clinching trophies. The script in the build-up to the derby was that Chiefs would crack under the pressure to in-form Pirates.
What they responded with was not a perfect performance. But it was a fighting one, Chiefs holding Josef Zinnbauer’s dangerous Bucs, thanks in no small part to Daniel Akpeyi’s in goal, troubling Pirates using less possession more effectively, and scoring the 31st-minute goal from Lebogang Manyama that counted.“Ja, no, I’m always smiling about it if other teams are talking about they ‘don’t want the championship’, or they want this. We have a very clear objective, from the beginning – on the first of August last year, before we started on August 4,” said the Chiefs coach.
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