Sundowns beat Royal AM 2-0 on Tuesday night, taking a step closer to a major PSL record. The win took Downs to 69 points with three games remaining. That leaves them just two points off the 71-point record set by Pitso Mosimane’s 2015/16 Sundowns team. Here are 5 stats from the action.
7 – Sundowns won home & away v Royal AM, their seventh league double of the season. Only 1996/97 Manning Rangers and 2015/16 Sundowns have completed more doubles in the same PSL campaign (both 8).
Sundowns can get nine.
69 – 69 points from 27 games is a new record at this stage of a PSL season. Indeed, no team has ever won more than 65 points after 27 games.
The 30-game points record is 71, while the overall PSL record s 75 points.
50 – Sundowns now have 50 league goals this season, just the 8th time a team gets 50+ in a PSL campaign since 2010.
The record for goals in a season is 56.
51 – Sundowns are now unbeaten in 51 league games, extending the PSL unbeaten record they first set in September last year.
100% – Peter Shalulile has scored at least once in every game he’s played v Royal AM (7 goals in 5 appearances), the only opponent against whom he enjoys a 100% scoring record in the league.