MUSONA MASSACRE

There is no better time to show one`s qualities that in the “biggest derby in Africa”. Knowledge Musona created one and scored two as Chiefs beat Orlando Pirates by three goals to one in an ABSA premier league match played in an almost packed FNB Stadium. The over seventy thousand fans that made the pilgrimage to the mecca of South African soccer watched in awe as Musona nutmegged a hapless Lucky Legwati on the right hand side, fooled Moeneeb Josephs and sent in a pinpoint cut back that a sliding Daine Klate put into the net. Daine Klate is an Orlando Pirates player.


Musona then came back to terrorise the same player, again putting the ball through the legs of the Pirates captain. This time the defender brought him down in the 18 yard box. Musona then got up, dusted himself up and duly sent Moeneeb Josephs the wrong way. The celebration from the deadliest striker in the PSL could easily get in into Aleck Macheso`s band as a dancer. He executed the Borrowdale dance to the appreciation of his teammates.

The third and killer goal was gifted to the mercurial Zimbo by Pirates defender Mahamootsa, who let a long ball bounce and then tried to head the ball back to his goalkeeper. Musona slipped in between keeper and defender, lobbed the ball over Josephs before heading into an empty net. He was taken off a few minutes later. I`m sure he was humming the tune to “….asi basa ndasiya ndapedza”.

Special mention must be made of Tinashe Nengomasha, who did an excellent job of stopping the skillful Pirates midfield from causing the Chiefs` back four too much trouble. The midfield duo of Clifford Ngobeni and Andile Jali had been terrorizing teams before they came up against Father. The back four included Thomas Swewe. He had a solid game at centre back. Still on the Chiefs back four, Jimmy Jambo did reveal to this very scribe that he would out for two to three weeks with an injury sustained during the midweek loss to Santos.

Pirates did score a consolation goal but the damage had already been done by the best thing to hit South African soccer since the vuvuzela.