From Afcon brilliance to PSL mastery, this pass had everyone talking – football at its finest in South Africa

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Thousands of Mamelodi Sundowns fans celebrated their win over Orlando Pirates recently and this is what some of them had to say:

@alexsithole Football porn 18SN. That assist by Modiba went to Harvard University. Don’t say anything. RT to annoy Orlando Pirates fans.

@SandileDesmond1 Assist of the season.

@shina_ayor What a game this was earlier today. Football at its finest. Never knew Lebo Mothiba is now at Sundowns. The last time I saw him play was during his days in France. The referee was also fantastic.

@NgwepeThapedi He made the same pass to Evidence during AFCON, the same pass last week and the same pass today.

@TyroSphere Aubrey De Bruyne. That assist looks like Man City in 2017. What a ball!

@kamohelo_m39094 Brian Leon didn’t spoil Modiba’s amazing assist.

@TMkhonza1986 Inacio Miguel must chokeslam that striker. When is Kaizer Chiefs playing Downs?

@maetsebane So Orlando Pirates had nine players behind the ball and still conceded? To be honest, there was no need for Nuno Santos to come to South Africa. He should have just stayed in Portugal because, with his accuracy, I believe this guy can pass the ball from Portugal to South Africa and it will still land in Brayan Leon’s feet.

@JoBertrand19 No need to panic after yesterday. It’s just one loss after months of winning games for Orlando Pirates. If we play the way the boys played yesterday, we will win the vast majority of the remaining games. Sundowns will drop points. We just need to drop one less than them.

@TalkLawMonare The biggest problem in a league-chasing scenario is losing games at the wrong time. There are season-defining games and, unfortunately for Pirates, they play two such games in succession. If we don’t get maximum points against Chiefs, then suddenly it’s Mount Kilimanjaro.

@YangaVieira “Sundowns will drop points.” Yet they couldn’t drop them against the well-oiled Pirates machine. You expect them to drop them against who?

@Lesmyplace But we should learn from that. We lack the killer instinct upfront – the problem with SA football. Hence Sundowns went and bought better strikers abroad.

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