Matebele rub salt into Flamingoes’ wound

The Premier League rookies carved chance after chance which either went begging or the attackers found Flamingoes goalkeeper, Kenneth Moko, unyielding. Moko, voted man-of-the-match, produced an assortment of goalkeeping heroics to keep his side in the game but the constant Matebele pressure paid off as the home side grabbed the winner five minutes before full time. Flamingoes took a 1-0 lead to the break through Samuel Makgoro after surviving a Matebele onslaught.

In his post-match interview Mpofu admitted it could have been worse for the ‘salt miners’. “If you were not here (at the stadium) you would think it was a tightly contested game, but if we face reality, we were lucky. We were lucky in the first half and periods of the second half,” he said.