Panorama F.C. - Randburg AFC 4-3 (15 February 2023)

Date	15 February 2023
Competition	Division 2
Venue	Panorama
Match	Panorama F.C. - Randburg AFC
Final Result	4 - 3
Goals	2 Iain Lindsay 2 Daniel Swanepoel
Assist	3 Marco Goncalves 1 Sizwe Mdunge
Yellow Cards	1 Daniel Swanepoel 1 Kyle De Klerk
Red Cards
Match Report	Panorama got closer to an early promotion to Division 1 with their 10th consecutive win after an exciting battle against 2nd places Randburg. Olgiati started the team with the usual 4-5-1, but unlike other games, Randburg offered a lot of resistence and quick counter attacks in order to prevent Panorama to play their flowy football of late. Without much going on on the wings, where Mdunge and Olgiati were tightly controlled, and with a lot of silly mistakes in the build up, Panorama still had at least 3-4 clear chances to score, but they couldn't get the ball in the net. Randburg, for all the hard work, couldn't get a shot at Tunga, and the first scruffy and tense half ended 0-0, with 2 players (Swanepoel and a Randburg player) getting sin binned. Nobody could imagine the craziness of the second half. With Goncalves moved on the wing, and with Randburg finally tiring out, it was time for Panorama to strike. Both goals happened in a similar manner, with Goncalves winning the battles on the left to deliver a precise pass for an easy tap-ins for Swanepoel. Randburg fought back and after Panorama lost some aggressivness in the middle, they managed to score with two long range shots in the space of 5 minutes.  With the score settled at 2-2, Panorama lost a bit of compouser, allowing Randburg to get dangerous again. But showing true grit, they eventually got back to their winning ways after a flurry of changes were made in order to adapt to Randburg new style, and once again it was Goncalves,  heroically barely still running after a groin injury, that released Lindsay for the 3-2.  At the end there was glory once again for Lindsay , who scored the 4-2 from a pass by Mdunge. The whole team battled and provided some fantastic last minute tackles (Benites in the first half, O'Sullivan all over) to keep the win, even after Randburg scored the 4-3 in the dying minutes. Overall an important win for Panorama, now leading with 10 apoints ahead of the 3rd place with one game in hand.  Some stats from the game: This was the 30th game against Randburg since 2013. Panorama won 19 of them, losing the last time in 2017 This was also Panorama 11th consecutive win, now one short of the club record of 12 from 2019 Lost of special occasions happende during the gamel: Lindsay played his 60th game, Jansen his 10th, Goncalves his 50th, Ho Lam his 20th. Egbers his 60th Lindsay continued his terrific season, with his 18th goal is Summer League and 11th in 2023. His two goals put him at par with Egbers and Dixon in the 4th overall place, just one behind the late Bezuidenhout Goncalves' second hat-trick of assists in the season puts him to 10 in summer league, and 7 in 2023. His overall assists amount is now 28, just 1 short of 7th place (Harris, at 29) Swanepoel scored his 10th goal of summer league, and 4th in 2023, putting him in 13th place with an average of almost one goal per game
GK Tunga Mushore 90 D Brendon Franz 40 D Steven O'sullivan 90 D Richard Garrard 70 D Marco Goncalves 70 M Olaf Olgiati 30 M Brent Bailey (c) 75 M Windsor Liu 60 M Iain Lindsay 80 M Sizwe Mdunge 60 F Daniel Swanepoel 90   sub Daniel Benites 30 sub Jacob Miles 10 sub Kevin Jansen 20 sub Kyle De Klerk 40   sub Nick Ho Lam 35 sub Philip Brown 60 sub Theo Egbers 45