Massive TAB pools ahead

Massive TAB pools ahead

TAB soccer bets offer the chance to win millions in the coming days as the final curtain for the 2021-22 season starts to come down on the major leagues with battles raging for Champion League slots and to avoid relegation

By Mark Gleeson

The major leagues are now in the final weeks of the 2021-22 season and TAB is heightening the rising tension with another torrent of carryovers and added pools, including a likely R28-million Soccer 13 pool and a R4-million Soccer 10 this Saturday. All the details are in this TAB Sports Express

The business end of the DStv Premiership campaign is well and truly upon us and the battle for the headline prize is done with Mamelodi Sundowns winning the title last week as expected.

They now look ahead to the Nedbank Cup final and what co-coach Manqoba Mngqithi calls “internal targets”. Thus hosts Sekhukhune United can expect no mercy tonight, when the two meet at Ellis Park with Sundowns out to accumulate as many points as possible for the season.

Sundowns look a banker to win in TAB soccer pools, even if there is much temptation among the Sundowns coaching staff to play many of the fringe players, particularly those coming back from injury layoffs.

Second-placed Royal AM have a tricky tie at Maritzburg United after Sundowns ended their 12-match unbeaten run in last Saturday’s Nedbank Cup semi-final.

Often once momentum is halted, it is hard to get it back and Royal AM take on a team desperate for points in their battle against relegation.

If Royal AM slip, then there is the opportunity for Cape Town City to go second. They take a run of 10 games without defeat to Gqeberha tomorrow to meet Chippa United, another side battling to avoid the drop.

Four points on the road in Gauteng last week, when City played Sundowns and then an ailing Kaizer Chiefs, was a major morale booster for Eric Tinkler’s lean-and-trim squad.

Chiefs are not done yet, but after four successive defeats, their hopes of ending runners-up and booking a place in next season’s African Champions League are diminishing fast.

Firing Stuart Baxter did not offer the club the lift they wanted. Instead they now look really at sea with new coach Arthur Zwane talking a good game but seemingly unable to get his team to produce it on the pitch.

Stellenbosch FC also hold slim hopes of a top-two finish, but that could be ended today away against SuperSport United at Atteridgeville.

At the other end of the table Swallows FC must beat AmaZulu tomorrow to move away from relegation danger, while it’s do-or-die for Baroka FC at home to Lamontville Golden Arrows.

Failure to win in Polokwane could seal Baroka’s fate. They have looked vulnerable all season long and with a succession of poor coaches have never really stood a chance.