PSL Match Report Mamelodi Sundowns six points clear after beating Moroka Swallows
Posted: 19 April 2014 Time: 17:42
Mamelodi Sundowns moved six points clear at the top of the Absa Premiership after a 1-0 win away to Moroka Swallows at Dobsonville Stadium on Saturday evening.
Teko Modise scored the only goal of the match in the seventh minute with a beautiful drive into the top-left corner after Hlompho Kekana's initial effort was blocked.
The win is the Brazilians’ ninth in a row and opens up clear daylight between them and second-placed Kaizer Chiefs, who still have two games in hand.
As for the Birds, it is a fourth successive defeat and a 10th loss from 14 League matches since the turn of the year. They remain in 13th, six points clear of the relegation zone.
Sundowns will next be in League action when they host Tshwane rivals SuperSport United in a week’s time, while Swallows are away to Polokwane City the following day.
HOME: Swallows FC
- 34 Greg Etafia
- 5 Asavela Mbekile
- 6 Ashraf Hendricks
- 13 Gilbert Mapemba
- 33 Roger Da Costa
- 34 Rudi Isaacs
- 7 Felix Obada
- 12 Lefa Tsutsulupa
70 mins - Giorgi Nergadze - 23 Tshwarelo Bereng
59 mins - Siyabonga Nomvethe - 29 Lerato Chabangu
- 18 Vuyisile Wana
80 mins - Dikgang Mabalane
AWAY: Mamelodi Sundowns
- 1 Kennedy Mweene
- 2 Ramahlwe Mphahlele
- 2 Thabo Nthethe
- 4 Tebogo Langerman
- 17 Alje Schut
46 mins - Rashid Sumaila - 7 Elias Pelembe
- 8 Surprise Moriri
76 mins - Bongani Zungu - 8 Hlompho Kekana
- 13 Teko Modise
- 18 Lebohang Mokoena
- 28 Anthony Laffor
56 mins - Rodney Ramagalela
