{"id":22121,"date":"2013-08-26T01:50:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T23:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/platinum-stars-defeat-bidvest-wits-in-mtn8-semi-final\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T01:50:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T23:50:29","slug":"platinum-stars-defeat-bidvest-wits-in-mtn8-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/platinum-stars-defeat-bidvest-wits-in-mtn8-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Platinum Stars defeat Bidvest Wits in MTN8 semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/why-musa-chose-wits-over-sundowns-and-pirates\/musa-bilankulu-130807-training-bpp-300\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14194\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14194\" alt=\"Musa Bilankulu. Photo: Backpagepix \" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/de0f3_Musa-Bilankulu-130807-Training-BPP-300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Musa Bilankulu. Photo: Backpagepix<\/p>\n<p>Gavin Hunt described Bidvest Wits\u2019 4-2 defeat to Platinum Stars in the MTN8 semi-final first leg as \u201c10 minutes of total madness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt watched in horror as his side conceded four goals in the space of 10 minutes in the second half, through a brace by Sphelele Mthembu, and goals from Mogakolodi Ngele and Henrico Botes.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt says his side conceded soft goals and did not deserve to lose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not a true reflection of the match but we will bounce back,\u201d the coach says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe certainly didn\u2019t deserve to lose the game, we could have scored six or more. Once we scored we had 10 minutes of madness. <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/stars-to-go-for-kill-against-wits-in-mtn8-semi-final\/\" target=\"_blank\">We were solid before, but in saying that we still had chances to equalise and all credit to them they got the goals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we had the chances we never scored, we conceded poor goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Hunt feels his side still have a chance in the second leg and that they will be stronger than they were today. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickoff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">KickOff.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more MTN8 news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/mtn8\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/bidvest-wits-have-advantage-over-platinum-stars\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/de0f3_193263824_80_807.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/bidvest-wits-have-advantage-over-platinum-stars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bidvest Wits have advantage over Platinum Stars<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/psl-confirms-mtn8-semis-dates-and-venues\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/de0f3_193760641_80_808.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/psl-confirms-mtn8-semis-dates-and-venues\/\" target=\"_blank\">PSL confirms MTN8 Semis dates and venues<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/platinum-stars-tactics-may-change-for-mtn8-semi-final\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/de0f3_195606015_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/platinum-stars-tactics-may-change-for-mtn8-semi-final\/\" target=\"_blank\">Platinum Stars\u2019 tactics may change for MTN8 semi-final<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/veteran-striker-mwaruwari-back-in-action-after-injury-scare\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/de0f3_195328262_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/veteran-striker-mwaruwari-back-in-action-after-injury-scare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Veteran striker Mwaruwari back in action after injury scare<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/1490b_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musa Bilankulu. Photo: Backpagepix Gavin Hunt described Bidvest Wits\u2019 4-2 defeat to Platinum Stars in the MTN8 semi-final first leg as \u201c10 minutes of total madness\u201d. Hunt watched in horror as his side conceded four goals in the space of 10 minutes in the second half, through a brace by Sphelele Mthembu, and goals from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-22121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}