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Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Rulani Mokwena has insisted that Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper Brandon Petersen should’ve received the Man of the Match award after his side’s 2-1 win over Amakhosi.
Masandawana beat Amakhosi 2-1 on Wednesday afternoon, but needed a late goal by Neo Maema after Chiefs had equalised Lucas Ribeiro’s first-half lead in the 84th minute via Ashley Du Preez.
Petersen turned from hero into villain after initially preventing his side from being down by three or four goals, but he fluffed Maema’s shot and it fell over the line to hand Downs’ the three points.
However, Mokwena still insisted that the Chiefs goalkeeper should’ve been named Man of the Match – with the award going to Thapelo Maseko.
“I think the better team won, for sure by far,” he said on SuperSport TV.
“And if you don’t take your chances this is what happens, you keep the game alive. We could’ve killed the game long time ago.
“We should score. My disappointment is that we don’t take the chances, how many chances do we need?
“I told them at half-time, historically Kaizer chiefs are a very lucky team, historically. And they don’t need too many chances.
“If you keep them in a game like that, they’re going to come back and you saw it’s 1-1. In the end it’s 2-1 and the winning goal comes in the dying minute and it feels like it was a very tight game.
“I think Petersen was Man of the Match, in my opinion because he made so many good saves and we had so many good chances.
“But ok, we take it. We’re happy with the three points and try to be better next time.”
Sundowns moved to the top of the log with six points from two games, while Chiefs are in 10th with just one point.