Alexandra’s Blue Aces turn tables upside down in Promotional League game
ALEXANDRA - Blue Aces puts on an ace performance to turn the tables in their game against Seven Stars.
Blue Aces put on an ace performance to turn the tables as they came from a goal down to beat a gritty Seven Stars 3–1 in a game of two halves at the Number 3 Square Grounds.
The first half of this Promotional League match of the Alexandra Northrand Local Football Association belonged to Stars who rattled the net in the 43rd minute of the game from what seemed to be an offside position but was given by the referee.
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The controversial goal from the boot of Siphelele Hokolo resulted from a spot kick on the edge of the box following a foul on a Stars striker in a match that had only one linesman assisting the referee.
Stars led by the solitary goal when the teams went into the halftime break but that lead was short-lived as Aces came back a totally transformed outfit in the second half.
Moses Mohloromela scored the equalising goal for Aces in the 71st minute and quickly followed with another to complete his brace, while the final nail in the Stars coffin was hammered in by Sello Mafa who is one of the leading
goal scorers in the league.
Aces coach Dominic Moitsi agreed with this reporter’s analysis of the match as a game of two halves, saying his men were too relaxed in the first half and hence they conceded a goal.
“I told them during the halftime break to pull up their socks and become more aggressive, which they did and hence the three goals that we got,” he said.
Stars coach Sinethemba Siwa described the three goals as coming from some silly mistakes that his men made and ‘we were punished dearly for that’.
He said his men lost their defensive shape at the back which allowed the opposition to come back into the game and eventually win it.
“If we had maintained our shape as we did in the first half, I am sure we would have closed them down and denied them any scoring opportunity,” he said.
“This game would have been ours had we kept that shape at the back.”
Siwa added that it was back to the drawing board for them before their next game.
