Cape Town City’s defeat at home to SuperSport United on Tuesday could mean coach Eric Tinkler leads the sack race in the DStv Premiership with their next game another tricky affair against Orlando Pirates on Saturday.
Bradley Grobler’s solitary goal is what sank City at Cape Town Stadium. City have only two wins from their last 10 outings with six defeats and two draws across all competitions. The Cape side’s slump in form has put Tinkler under pressure, having already crashed out of the CAF Confederation Cup before the group stages.
Tinkler would undoubtedly be aiming to use the game against Pirates at Cape Town Stadium to prove he is still the right man for the job. The Citizens coach chalked up their defeat to Matsatsantsa to struggling to keep the ball and string passes together, insinuating a draw would’ve been a fair outcome in the Mother City.
“Maintaining position is normally our strength. Normally, by halftime we have 300 successful passes and in this game we only managed to get just over 200 [successful passes]. Our possession stats were poor, passing accuracy was poor and that allowed SuperSport to come more and more into the game. We are supposed to be dominant at home in terms of possession but that wasn’t the case.
“We struggled to link our play through the wide players... our 10 and our 9 and seemed to be going more sideways backwards, sideways backwards. At the end of the day I don’t think either team deserved to come away with anything. I don’t think it was the prettiest game that you’ve ever seen, so I am obviously disappointed because we were playing with a fear of losing.”
Meanwhile, for SuperSport, the win meant they have now garnered five wins from their last six league games, sitting second on the log just seven points behind leaders Mamelodi Sundowns. Even so, coach Gavin Hunt is downplaying the side’s title ambitions.
“We are taking it one game at a time. We are not looking at our position on the log because that’s not important. You don’t talk about the title race,” Hunt said.
Pirates game could be Tinkler’s last chance to avoid being axed
Loss against SuperSport puts coach under pressure
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Cape Town City’s defeat at home to SuperSport United on Tuesday could mean coach Eric Tinkler leads the sack race in the DStv Premiership with their next game another tricky affair against Orlando Pirates on Saturday.
Bradley Grobler’s solitary goal is what sank City at Cape Town Stadium. City have only two wins from their last 10 outings with six defeats and two draws across all competitions. The Cape side’s slump in form has put Tinkler under pressure, having already crashed out of the CAF Confederation Cup before the group stages.
Tinkler would undoubtedly be aiming to use the game against Pirates at Cape Town Stadium to prove he is still the right man for the job. The Citizens coach chalked up their defeat to Matsatsantsa to struggling to keep the ball and string passes together, insinuating a draw would’ve been a fair outcome in the Mother City.
“Maintaining position is normally our strength. Normally, by halftime we have 300 successful passes and in this game we only managed to get just over 200 [successful passes]. Our possession stats were poor, passing accuracy was poor and that allowed SuperSport to come more and more into the game. We are supposed to be dominant at home in terms of possession but that wasn’t the case.
“We struggled to link our play through the wide players... our 10 and our 9 and seemed to be going more sideways backwards, sideways backwards. At the end of the day I don’t think either team deserved to come away with anything. I don’t think it was the prettiest game that you’ve ever seen, so I am obviously disappointed because we were playing with a fear of losing.”
Meanwhile, for SuperSport, the win meant they have now garnered five wins from their last six league games, sitting second on the log just seven points behind leaders Mamelodi Sundowns. Even so, coach Gavin Hunt is downplaying the side’s title ambitions.
“We are taking it one game at a time. We are not looking at our position on the log because that’s not important. You don’t talk about the title race,” Hunt said.
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