CAPS United’s two-goal hero Dennis Dauda believes the team’s performance against Dynamos in Sunday’s Castle Lager PSL match at the National Sports shows that they have matured as a team and with such a commendable performance they deserve to be crowned the temperament and mental strength to be crowned league champions at the end of the season.

The gangly defender was the hero for the Green Machine as he scored twice to ensure the pacesetters firmly remain in charge in an intriguing championship race which also has Highlanders and FC Platinum in contention.

The former ZPC Kariba man opened the account for “the down but not out” Makepekepe in the 86th before he got the equaliser in the third minute of optional time with second half substitute Amon Kambanje also getting a goal in-between.
“This shows that we are now mature and have the character of champions in us but it is still game on and we still have three matches to play,” said Dauda.

The 2014 Soccer Star of the year said he just had a feeling that they could stage a dramatic comeback.

“We had a feeling that we could score when we were trailing and when I scored the first goal, I took the ball and went to the centre.

“Again, when we scored, I took the ball to the centre again because I was feeling that we would come back” said Dauda.

Scoring a rare brace and coming from a defender, the 2014 Soccer Star of the Year was rather modest with his achievement.

He was on target for the first time this season in CAPS United’s 3-2 victory against How Mine on September 24.

And it appears the tall defender is not going to stop scoring.

“I feel so great. The first goal was an opener, the second was an equaliser, so I am really happy with these goals,” he said.

However, Dauda described his goals as silly.

“They were silly goals, the goals I scored. They (Dynamos) had relaxed and I took advantage of that” said Dauda.