Sundowns show class in crushing win over Kaizer Chiefs

At Loftus Versfeld

Defending champions Mamelodi Sundowns laid down an early marker in the 2022/23 PSL season with a crushing 4-0 win against Kaizer Chiefs at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.

Sundowns did lead at the break and deserved to win at the raucous Sunnyside sporting arena that was sold out.

However, it the scoreline hide how combative Kaizer Chiefs were, but history doesn't remember what a team did during the game.

It remembers the score.

History will say Sundowns wiped the floor with Chiefs and in the longer scheme of events, it was Sundowns' clinical finishing that triumphed over Chiefs' encouragingly youthful, but error-prone enterprise.

The win saw Mamelodi Sundowns, who were ninth on the log at the start of the game, surge back to the top with their second win of the season.

Chiefs, who showed excellent developmental buds despite the hammering, are 11th on the log with two losses from their three games.

The game was always going to be a spectacle once Sundowns unveiled Bongani Zungu as their player once again just before the start of the game.

There also were the Bulls players who made a half-time appearance as Loftus Versfeld soaked in a packed stadium.

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The first half wasn't a vintage performance from Sundowns. In fact, Chiefs played the better football, but the hosts made fewer mistakes.

Chiefs, through Siyabonga Ngezana, made two glaring bloopers. Sundowns, smarting from a shock 1-0 home midweek loss to TS Galaxy, made the most of those opportunities.

The first one was a sixth-minute back pass to keeper Bruce Bvuma that was smartly