Four-ceful ‘Buffs’ gatecrash title race!

(At Mkhuzweni Technical Centre)

Y. Buffaloes……..(4)4

Mazwi 12^th,40^th, Njabulo 14^th, Saviola 39^th

M. Wanderers….(0)0

MKHUZWENI- Young Buffaloes have made a big statement ahead of the second round of the MTN Premier League.

Look at the standings and take a long, lingering look at the summit of the MTN Premier League, for the scenery in the kingdom has changed. Under the heavy, brooding clouds of the northern Hhohho sky, Young Buffaloes did not merely win a football match, they issued a thunderous decree that they have arrived, uninvited and unforgiving, at the title race’s top table.

This was a clash born of patience, a fixture originally destined for the Mayalula Stadium on Sunday, but cruelly denied by the heavens as torrential rains forced a midweek pilgrimage to the Mkhuzweni Technic Centre.

As the curtain falls on the first round of action in the heat of the Eswatini summer, the army side stands a mere two points behind Nsingizini Hotspurs.

While Hotspurs may have clutched their E120 000 first-round ‘carrot’ on Saturday, history whispers a cruel warning that first-round champions so often find their crowns slipping by May.

The match itself was a first-half high-speed attack, a whirlwind of military precision that left the storied Manzini Wanderers languishing in the doldrums of the log.

It took only 12 minutes for the architecture of Bongwa Matsebula to carve an opening for Mazwi Sihlongonyane to tap home the opener, and a mere two minutes later, the script of a returning hero was written as Njabulo Gama pounced on a rebound to make it two.

The deluge continued as the interval approached when Sandile Saviola Gamedze emerged from a frantic goalmouth scramble in the 39^th minute to stab home a third, before Sihlongonyane completed his clinical brace just sixty seconds later off yet another teasing Matsebula delivery.

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