Orlando Pirates press on into the closing phase of the Betway Premiership season with a clash against AmaZulu taking place at Orlando Amstel Arena on Saturday.
It’s a welcome return home for the Buccaneers, who are back from a testing assignment on the coast and now face their third opponent from KwaZulu-Natal in as many fixtures. On their sights this time around is an in-form Usuthu outfit eyeing a big scalp in what has so far been one of their most productive campaigns in the PSL era.
Only half a dozen fixtures remain for both sides in the 2025/26 season, and each of the two teams will take to the storied arena with only three points in mind.
A return to continental football is within reach for AmaZulu as they visit Pirates while sitting in fourth place in the Premiership standings, and a good result in the fixture will strengthen their cause. With only the league to focus on following their quarter-final elimination in the Nedbank Cup, they are aiming to continue what has been a solid run of results in their last four matches having collected at least one point in each of their four most recent games.
It is a spell of fixtures that has seen the men from KZN tally up eight out of an available 12 points through two wins alongside stalemates against Sekhukhune United and Siwelele. The point earned in the Free State took their overall tally to 39, maintaining a mathematical – yet unlikely – shot at the title.
