Supersport Utd closer to title win

SUPERSPORT United will win back-to-back Absa Premiership titles if they collect three points from visitors Golden Arrows in their penultimate match of the season at the Super Stadium tonight.

United´s only challengers, Orlando Pirates, have to beat Ajax Cape Town at Newlands – also Wednesday night- if they should hope to take the season to Saturday´s final round of fixtures.
United head the standings with 54 points, followed by Bucs on 51 with each contender having two matches to play. United have a superior goal difference and can afford to drop three points, but SuperSport coach Gavin Hunt, fired a broadside at the PSL administration for the manner in which they have handled the fixtures this season.
Stormed an angry Hunt: ‘We will not have kicked a ball for two full weeks by the time we play Arrows. It is a disgrace. How on earth can teams be idle for a full two weeks at the end of the season?’
United´s last game was the 1-1 draw at Loftus against Pirates two weeks ago.
Hunt added: ‘We played a whole heap of matches in January and February because of the African Champions League and international matches. That is fine, but we could have finished the league at least three weeks ago if the fixtures were handled right.’
Hunt is not the only coach to complain after the stop-start fixtures this season. Pirates coach Ruud Krol complained after that 1-1 draw that his team were rusty after they had experienced a two-week layoff.
Hunt said his team were also rusty: ‘We have been starved of match competition and it is not our first such break this season, and now play Arrows in what will be one of the biggest games of our season and the PSL season. The PSL are not doing the product or themselves any favours by not keeping players and teams busy every week.’
But Hunt is determined to seal the championship, although he is wary of Arrows. ‘The bottom line is we have two matches to play and need three points to retain the league. I am not getting carried away or putting pressure on the players. I rate Arrows highly and they are not going to be easy to subdue.
‘But we have been in this position of winning the league for the past month and now hopefully the players will go out and clinch it.’
United travel to Cape Town on Saturday to meet Santos in their final match of the season.
– Supersoccer