Hunt – we are in a dogfight
Gavin Hunt has admitted that his Bidvest Wits side now find themselves in a “dogfight” to avoid relegation at the end of the season.
Gavin Hunt coach of Bidvest Wits (Sydney Mahlangu/BackpagePix)
The Clever Boys’ 4-0 hammering by Orlando Pirates on Wednesday night leaves them just two points clear of 15th-placed Ajax Cape Town, with two games left to play in the season.
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Last season’s Absa Premiership champions were bottom of the table at Christmas, but seemed to have recovered with a good run of form in early 2018. A stretch of just one win in five matches, however, has dragged the Clever Boys right back into trouble.
“Obviously it is a situation we are not used two, and I am not used to,” said Hunt, who has never finished outside the top eight in his time as a head coach in the Premier Soccer League.
“But it is a different mindset, we have to buckle down. We have another two players out today who won’t play Saturday, so already now we are changing the side again … we really have to look at what we have left (in the squad) but we are in a dogfight, no doubt about it.”
Wits must play AmaZulu at home on Saturday, before traveling to already-relegated Platinum Stars for their final league game of the season on May 12. They will have to face AmaZulu without suspended central defender Buhle Mkhwanazi and the injured Daylon Claasen.
Wits captain Thulani Hlatshwayo, meanwhile, pulled out of the Pirates game at the last minute complaining of dizziness, according to Hunt, and it remains to be seen if he is fit for Saturday.
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