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There were four league matches played during the week, which saw home wins for Chippa, Kaizer Chiefs and Sundowns. Sundowns’ record breaking heroics will make most of the headlines, but here’s a stats recap of all the midweek action.

5 – No team has kept more clean sheets in the league than AmaZulu this season (5, joint-high). Yet, no team has failed to score on more ocassions than them (5, a league-high).

12 – Only once before have Chippa United won more points at the end of Q1 than the 12 they have won this season (13 in 2014/15 under Kosta Papic and then Roger Sikhakhane).

1 – Kaizer Chiefs came back from trailing at half-time to win a league game for the first time since April 2021 v Sundowns under Gavin Hunt. They had not won in any of the last 20 such situations in that time (D2 L18).

32 – Sundowns last night set a new outright record for the longest run without defeat in PSL history, going 32 league matches unbeaten (W26 D6 since September 2022)

16y7m9d – Aged 16 years 7 months 9 days, Siyabonga Mabena became the youngest player to score a league goal for Sundowns in PSL history, beating Siyanda Xulu’s record for the club by 478 days (set in Nov 2009).

8 – Sundowns also equalled the PSL record for consecutive wins from the start of a top-flight season (8, level with 2014/15 Chiefs under Stuart Baxter)

5 – Stellenbosch have opened the scoring five times v Sundowns since their 2019 promotion. No other side has done so more than twice.

16 – Last night, Siyabonga Mabena also became the youngest goalscorer in the league in the PSL era. He (16y 7m & 9d) surpasses Thulani Ngcepe (16y 11m & 21d in 2007) as the competition’s youngest-ever scorer (league only).

2 – Devon Titus is only the 2nd player to score a 1st half goal against Mamelodi Sundowns in the 12 months (also Ryan Moon in April).

2 – For Sekhukhune, this was only the second time they failed to win a league game they led at half-time (also v Pirates in November 2021, otherwise W8 D4 L1)

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