Flames midfielder, Robert Ng\u2019ambi, handed 10-man Platinum Stars maximum points after they beat SuperSport United 1-0 in the Absa Premiership at Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
The match had a cagey start in the first five minutes but defender Michael Boxall failed to lower his shot when a loose ball fell in his path in the box.<\/p>\n
Stars exchanged good passes but it was Ng\u2019ambi who tried to beat goalkeeper Ronwen Williams from a distance, but his curler went wide in the 13th minute.<\/p>\n
In the 20th minute, United were awarded a set-piece which was delivered by Thuso Phala down the left flank, only for Clayton Daniels to see his free header going inches wide.<\/p>\n
Despite enjoying good ball possession, Cavin Johnson\u2019s men (Stars) failed to open up Stuart Baxter\u2019s side and Ndumiso Mabena resorted to a long-range shot which sailed wide with four minutes to the end of the opening half.<\/p>\n
After their return from the break, the Tshwane side came back and put pressure on their hosts, but Michael Morton once again could not hit the target.<\/p>\n
In the 51st minute, United\u2019s skipper, Dean Furman, unleashed a well-struck shot from the 18- yard area but keeper Mbongeni Mzimela produced a fine save to deny him.<\/p>\n
Three minutes later, Stars were dealt a huge blow when defender Sphamandla Mlilo was sent off for a second bookable offence after handling Grobler on the right flank.<\/p>\n
However, in the 62nd minute captain Vuyo Mere\u2019s stunning free kick picked out Ng\u2019ambi in the box, with his fine header breaking the deadlock by beating Williams.<\/p>\n
In another game, striker Atusaye Nyondo came in as a second half substitute as his Bloemfontein Celtic lost 1-0 to Maritzburg United also on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
It was Nyondo\u2019s debut for Celtic after signing from relegated University of Pretoria.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Flames midfielder, Robert Ng\u2019ambi, handed 10-man Platinum Stars maximum points after they beat SuperSport United 1-0 in the Absa Premiership at Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg on Wednesday night. The match had a cagey start in the first five minutes but defender Michael Boxall failed to lower his shot when a loose ball fell in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30698,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30694\/revisions\/30698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}