Andre Arendse: SuperSport coach admits to pressure as relegation battle intensifies
- Adamu Muftawu
- Apr 29
- 2 min read
SuperSport United interim head coach Andre Arendse has admitted that pressure is mounting on the club as the Betway Premiership relegation battle continues to intensify.
With five matches left to end the season, Arendse has made an honest admission on the club’s relegation struggles as they currently sit 14th on the log, tied with Cape Town City FC on 23 points at the bottom of the standings. The 15th place finisher qualifies for a playoff with the 2nd and 3rd place teams from the second tier Motsepe Foundation Championship with the winner obtaining top flight status next season.
The Betway Premiership currently consists of 15 teams after the expulsion of Royal AM this month. Arendse has acknowledged that they are under pressure but remains positive that their fortunes will change.
“We are in a situation at the moment, from a club’s perspective, where there is pressure. We are trying to negotiate and navigate our way from the bottom of the table,” he said.
“It’s very easy for pressure to set in. But I have said to the players, ‘Give it to me’. I will put the pressure there. Just go and play. It’s the second game now that we have taken the lead, and we have conceded.
“But as I said, the fight the players have, and that’s something we work on every day in training, to keep that fight about the work that we do.
“We will be okay if we continue to play like that. We are creating chances, but we need to be a little more clinical with our opportunities. You could see, we are a team that scores some of the fewest goals in the league.
“So it has become a mental thing. We can’t have names like Bradley Grobler, Samir Nurkovic and Christian Saile, and we are scoring the fewest goals in the league.
“It’s about confidence, and we are doing a lot of functional work at training with the strikers to keep them going. We can see a lot of improvements along those lines.”
SuperSport, currently on a seven-match winless run in all competitions, next host Chippa United on Saturday.
