The SuperSport United Sentinel
Squad13 Dec 2027
Real improvement from Gomolemo Kekana at SuperSport United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Gomolemo Kekana is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Kermit Mothiba in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SuperSport United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Erick Manyama falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad13 Dec 2027
SuperSport United count the cost of losing Percy Mokoena
45 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
Gomolemo Kekana gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
The afternoon belonged to Riyaaz Koopstadt
A mark of 7.48, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
When it matters, Deano Van Rooyen plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Khama Mokotjo was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the SuperSport United dressing room was either.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
Kermit Mothiba could have had three
12 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
In brief
- Match No goals between SuperSport United and Maritzburg United
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Teboho Erasmus's mistake
- Market Luther Mahlangu linked with a move away