TUT ends Tuks’ hopes of defending Varsity Football title
TUT qualified for the 2018 Varsity Football final by beating Tuks in a Tshwane derby semi-final last week.
Sometimes sport can be cruel you can be the best, but it does not necessarily guarantee a victory.
The players of the Tuks football team will realise that after they lost 1-0 last week at home against TUT in the Varsity semi-final.
TUT seemed to have taken a page from the legendary Muhammad Ali’s “playbook” by executing the perfect “rope-a-dope” game plan. It boiled down to TUT allowing Tuks to launch attack after attack but managing to foil it time and again while waiting for their opponents to make that one crucial mistake and then capitalise on it.
And it worked. In the second half, Tuks bungled what seemed like three certain goal scoring opportunities. Then the team’s defenders had a mere moment of lapsed concentration in the 70th minute. That was all it took for TUT to end Tuks’ hopes of defending the Varsity-title.
The real hero in TUT’s victory was undoubtedly their goalkeeper, Sikhumbuzo Ncube, who showed what nerves of steel and keeping a cool head is all about.
Tuks captain Simbongile Njokwe had no excuse for what happened.
“We knew that TUT is going to be sitting back waiting for us to bring the game to them. We tried to outmanoeuvre their defenders to get the ball into the back of the net, but it was to no avail. TUT had one real chance to score, and they made it work,” he said after the game.
Wits have beaten UJ in a penalty shootout and they will host TUT this week in the final.
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