Cape Town City threw a spanner in the works with a 3-2 home victory against title chaser Mamelodi Sundowns at Loftus Versfeld Stadium, in Pretoria on Monday evening.

Sundowns hopes of retaining the ABSA Premiership trophy are slowly slipping away as they remain six points behind Kaizer Chiefs.

This was Masandawana’s first loss in seven games in all competitions. Since the resumption of football, the defending Absa Premiership champions have played four games winning one and drawing two.

“We were always fighting to equalise which we did not, we struggled a little bit, we always believed we will come back and they took their chances very well. We tried to score and we pinned them but they resited”, said Coach Pitso Mosimane.

“We are struggling and we are not going to hide if we were doing well we should be winning, we are upfront we not gonna hide, after we came back Sundowns is not the same. We drew two and lost one.”

The Citizens were the first one’s to score as Surprise Ralani found the back of the net after his initial shot was saved by Denis Onyango.

Kermit Erasmus scored the second goal for the home side and it looked like the first stanza will end with two-nil but Masandawana found the back of the net through an own goal by Dove Edmilson.

The second half saw both sides throwing everything and with the Brazilians pushing for that important equaliser a mistake at the back by Wayne Arendse allowed Ralani to stretch the lead as he put the ball past Onyango. Keletso Makgalwa managed to find space behind the City defence to reduce the deficit in the 90th minute and the game ended 3-2.

Twenty four games have been played by all the sides and The Brazilians have some catching up to do.

Sundowns will hope to bounce back in their clash against Maritzburg United on Friday at 18:00 CAT (19:00EAT).