The Sunday News
Ngqwele Dube, Sports Correspondent
Bantu Rovers ………………………….…………… (5) 7
Yaddah FC …………………………………………. (1) 2
YADDAH FC’S decision to play without the technical bench spectacularly backfired when Bantu Rovers humiliated them 7-2 in a Castle Lager Premiership soccer tie at Luveve Stadium yesterday afternoon.
The match saw rising star, Bukhosi Sibanda score a hat-trick, the first of the season and ensure the season will end with at least one player having scored three goals in a single match unlike last year. The three goals saw Sibanda’s total goal tally this season move to seven, the highest so far.
Yaddah chairman Everson Chatambudza declined to reveal the reasons why his team played without members of the technical team but sources in their camp claimed the club owner, Prophet Walter Magaya told the coaches on Thursday they would not be travelling with the team to Bulawayo after losing to Dynamos last Sunday.
Bantu Rovers quickly took charge of the match and were rewarded with a goal in the fifth minute when an impressive Obriel Chirinda, who provided four assists, beat the entire Yaddah defence before sending it to Sibanda who slammed it into the nets.
Chirinda was also in the thick of things three minutes later setting up Gladman Bharibhari who made it two.
Yaddah reduced the deficit in the 13thh minute when Morris Musiyakuvi’s shot from just inside the box curled to the near post beating Notice Dube who was guarding the posts for Bantu.
Chirinda, Newman Sianchali and Sibanda added to Bantu’s tally in the 27th, 31st, and 42nd minutes respectively as they went to the break with a four goal cushion. Sibanda and substitute, Mbonisi Ncube added to Bantu’s goals in the second half while Musiyakuvi scored his second of the match in injury time.
