Match Report
10 points and 1 places separated them: Royal Leopards 4th with 0, JS Saoura 3rd with 10. Recent form told a different story for Royal Leopards: only 16th in the league over the last five rounds despite sitting 4th. Scoring rates set the scale: Royal Leopards 0.83 scored and 3 conceded per game, JS Saoura 1 and 0.83, with the league averaging 1.21.
Royal Leopards arrived off four straight defeats. Over the last five, Royal Leopards had taken 3 of 15 points to JS Saoura's 10.
The match was played at Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit (capacity 28,900). Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 0-2.