{"id":21101,"date":"2025-09-29T09:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21101"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:37:22","slug":"siwelele-end-702-minute-goal-drought-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21101","title":{"rendered":"Siwelele end 702-minute goal drought in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South African club Siwelele ended a 702-minute league goal drought on Sunday when Tebogo Potsane scored in a 1-0 Bloemfontein derby victory over Marumo Gallants.<\/p>\n<p>Marumo conceded possession just inside their half and a swift counterattack ended with Potsane firing past 40-year-old Zimbabwe goalkeeper Washington Arubi from close range on 39 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Siwelele are newcomers to the Premiership, having bought the franchise of cash-strapped three-time champions SuperSport United.<\/p>\n<p>They scored three times in a debut win over Golden Arrows last month, then went seven matches without scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Victory lifted Siwelele off the bottom of the table to 12th at the end of a dramatic week in which the chief executive and assistant and goalkeepers&#8217; coaches were fired.<\/p>\n<p>The dismissed trio, official Stan Matthews and coaches Andre Arendse and Grant Johnson, were former employees of SuperSport, who won the championship three consecutive times from 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Defeat extended a winless run by Marumo to seven matches after starting their campaign with two victories. Their 28-year-old French coach Alexandre Lafitte is the youngest in the Premiership.<\/p>\n<p>Chippa United returned to last place after being held 0-0 in East London by fellow strugglers Stellenbosch. Both clubs have won just once in nine outings.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African club Siwelele ended a 702-minute league goal drought on Sunday when Tebogo Potsane scored in a 1-0 Bloemfontein derby victory over Marumo Gallants. Marumo conceded possession just inside their half and a swift counterattack ended with Potsane firing past 40-year-old Zimbabwe goalkeeper Washington Arubi from close range on 39 minutes. Siwelele are newcomers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}