Harambee Stars defender Brian Onyango Mandela came on in the 13th minute as Mamelodi Sundowns beat 5-1 Royal AM in a DStv Premiership game at Loftus Versfeld Stadium on Tuesday night.
The win saw Sundowns enter the league’s history books with an eleventh straight home win, ending a 24-year long-standing record (10 home wins) the club set in 1999, according to statistics from Opta Jabu.
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Masandawana are league champions-elect for a record sixth consecutive season. Still, they are not mathematically crowned yet, despite second-placed SuperSport United being 20 points behind them in the standings, with a game in hand.
Their Tshwane neighbors and rivals would have to win all their remaining matches and rely on Sundowns to lose all their league fixtures to be crowned champions, which looks improbable at this point in the season.
Sundowns could be declared champions in their next league match if they claim three points against Cape Town City (April 1) and SuperSport fail to win against Orlando Pirates on Saturday (18 March) or against Chippa United (April 1).
That would mean another PSL record ticked off if they are to reach that achievement – winning the league title in 24 league games.
The evening was capped off when Sundowns brought on 16-year-old Siyabonga Mabena. His 15-minute cameo off the substitutes bench made him one of the youngest players in the modern PSL era.
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