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Gordon Igesund
Arrows, Maritzburg draw
Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:00
Golden Arrows and visitors Maritzburg United went away with a share of the spoils at the Chatsworth Stadium on Saturday afternoon when they played to a 1-1 draw.
Bafana Bafana striker Richard Henyekane put the home team ahead
in the second half, while Nigerian import Felix Obada leveled
matters on the stroke of full time for United.
The first half was a lacklustre affair with neither side being
able to mount any serious attempts at goal.
However, in this stanza of play, the visitors held the upper
hand but were only able to pepper the Arrows goal with long range
shots which seldom troubled keeper Helton Da Rocha.
Arrows most promising moment of the half was when Philani Shange
beat the off-side trap in the 28th minute and tried to thread the
ball into the path of Richard Henyekane who was unmarked in the
United penalty area, but Byron Hendriks stuck out a boot in the
nick of time to avert the danger.
In a rare attacking foray for Arrows, the Henyekane brothers,
Joseph and Richard, combined to set-up Thamsanqa Gabuza for an easy
tap-in, twelve minutes after the interval, but the lanky striker
made a hash of the chance.
Immediately afterwards, Arrows coach, Manqoba Mngqithi,
introduced Koffi Tanoh in place of Gabuza. Four minutes later this
tactical move paid dividends when Tanoh laid a defence splitting
pass into the path of the fleet-footed Richard Henyekane who pulled
away from his markers and finished with aplomb.
Shortly thereafter, Richard Henyekane teed-up Philani Shange for
an attempt at goal but Tashrique Goldman in the United goals kept
out the danger with a well timed lunge.
The visitors pressed for an equaliser in the remaining minutes
and eventually got their reward when Obada rifled home a thunderous
shot inside the Arrows box after following up on a Musa Nyatama
header which hit the home team's crossbar.