{"id":35366,"date":"2024-02-19T08:07:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T06:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=35366"},"modified":"2024-02-19T08:07:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T06:07:44","slug":"kaizer-chiefs-highlands-park-crash-out-of-gdl-top-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=35366","title":{"rendered":"Kaizer Chiefs, Highlands Park crash out of GDL Top 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29529\" src=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/supersport-united-400-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/supersport-united-400-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/supersport-united-400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/supersport-united-400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The highly anticipated <strong>Gauteng Development League Top 8<\/strong> competition grabbed the weekend&#8217;s spotlight as Gauteng&#8217;s most successful football franchises, coaches, and fans assembled at the <strong>Marks Park Sports Complex<\/strong> in Randburg on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The hottest items on the day&#8217;s menu were the mouth-watering u19 division clashes between <strong>Kaizer Chiefs<\/strong> and <strong>SuperSport United<\/strong>, and <strong>Highlands Park<\/strong> and <strong>Prestige Football Development Academy (PFDA)<\/strong>, which promised to provide the entertainment the fans had been craving.<\/p>\n<p>Coach <strong>David Mathebula<\/strong>&#8216;s Kaizer Chiefs, the Soweto Giants, went into their game deservedly carrying the favourites&#8217; tag, as they had played the most attractive football last season, scoring over 100 goals in the GDL, the most by any team.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was one of those rather forgettable days for Mathebula and his young troops as they crumbled under SuperSport United&#8217;s pressure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Malatji Mohone<\/strong>&#8216;s yellow card during the encounter highlighted Chiefs&#8217; struggles on the day as the encounter ended goalless. Then, in the penalty shootout, the Pretoria-based SuperSport United dominated to run out 3-0 winners as they registered the first upset of the day.<\/p>\n<p>It was not the last as last season&#8217;s league winners, Highlands Park, were handed a humbling defeat by PFDA.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, PFDA finished eighth on the log, but they showed that they had put the matters of the past where they belong, in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The clash ended in a 1-1 draw as Prestige&#8217;s <strong>Shahabodien Salmaan<\/strong> and Highlands Park&#8217;s <strong>Moeletsi Ofentse<\/strong> found the back of the net. PFDA then held their nerve in the penalty shootout and edged past &#8220;The Lions of the North&#8221; 5-4 from the spot.<\/p>\n<p>In other u19 division matches, <strong>Mamelodi Sundowns<\/strong> beat <strong>TS Galaxy<\/strong> 2-0 at Clapham on Sunday, while <strong>School of Excellence<\/strong> got the better of <strong>Randburg AFC<\/strong> with a 2-0 victory at Marks Park.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GDL Top 8 Full Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>u13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RESA v Siluma 7 &#8211; Penalties<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>RESA won 4-2 in penalties and progressed to the semi-finals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Panorama vs Jomo Cosmos 10-0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Panorama progressed to the semi-finals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kaizer Chiefs vs Kathorus Hyper 4-0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kaizer Chiefs progressed to the semi-finals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mamelodi Sundowns vs SuperSport United 3-1<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sundowns progressed to the semi-finals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>u15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>School of Excellence vs SuperSport United 2-1<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SOE progressed to the semi-finals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Siluma 7 vs TUKS 0-3<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TUKS progressed to the semi-finals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kaizer Chiefs vs Highlands Park<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chiefs won5-4 in Penalty shootouts and progressed to the semi-finals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mamelodi Sundowns vs Wits Junior 3-0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sundowns progressed to the semi-finals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>u17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SS United vs TUKS 8-2<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SS United progressed to the semi-finals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Randburg AFC vs Kathorus Hyper Academy 1-1<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Randburg won 5-4 in penalty shootouts and progressed to the semi-finals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kaizer Chiefs vs RESA 2-0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chiefs progressed to the semi-finals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mamelodi Sundowns vs Highlands Park 1-2<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highlands Park progressed to the semi-finals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>u19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>School of Excellence (SOE) vs Randburg AFC 2-0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SOE progress to the semi-finals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kaizer Chiefs vs SS United 0-0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SS United progressed to the semi-finals on Penalties (0-3)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Highlands Park vs Prestige Football Development Academy (PFDA)1-1<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PFDA won 4-3 in penalty shootouts and progressed to the semi-finals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mamelodi Sundowns vs TS Galaxy 2-0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sundowns progressed to the semi-finals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highly anticipated Gauteng Development League Top 8 competition grabbed the weekend&#8217;s spotlight as Gauteng&#8217;s most successful football franchises, coaches, and fans assembled at the Marks Park Sports Complex in Randburg on Saturday. The hottest items on the day&#8217;s menu were the mouth-watering u19 division clashes between Kaizer Chiefs and SuperSport United, and Highlands Park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":29529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}