Crunch clash for City, Chiefs

Cape Town City and Kaizer Chiefs will have a crunch clash to headline seven DStv Premiership fixtures across the weekend of Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 March.

The Citizens and the Amakhosi will meet at the Athlone Stadium on Saturday afternoon, with the hosts still chasing a first win of 2024 and the visitors looking to bounce back from a dramatic Soweto derby defeat earlier in the month.

City are winless in five league and cup matches, most recently suffering a 2-0 loss away to Royal AM before the international break. The poor sequence of results has seen them drop to fifth place on the log, though they are still very much in the running to finish in second spot behind runaway leaders Mamelodi Sundowns.

“The fact of the matter is that we are not playing well enough, it is as simple as that. We will get back to the drawing board and look to change that. We’ve been down this route before, we will find the way out,” said City coach Eric Tinkler.

His counterpart at Chiefs, Cavin Johnson, is still stinging from a 3-2 loss to arch-rivals Orlando Pirates in their last outing – as well as a run of just one win from their last six matches across all competitions.

KWAZULU-NATAL DERBY

A busy Saturday also features a KwaZulu-Natal derby between Golden Arrows and Richards Bay (in which the Natal Rich Boyz will be desperate for points to try and haul themselves out of the relegation playoff zone), as well as Sekhukhune United hosting Orlando Pirates in Polokwane.

Babina Noko have put together a four-game winning streak in the league, but such is their hunger for improvement that coach Lehlohonolo Seema was not particularly happy even after a 4-1 win over Moroka Swallows prior to the international break.

“There is a lot of work that we still