Mamelodi Sundowns’ goalkeeper Ronwen Williams missed out on the chance to set a new record for clean sheets in the Premier Soccer League when Chippa United’s Thabiso Lebitso scored a last-gasp goal at Loftus Versfeld on Tuesday.

It was only a consolation as the champions won 2-1 to extend their lead in the title race to 13 points but ended Williams’ hopes of moving closer to the PSL’s clean sheet record.

The Sundowns goalkeeper had kept seven in a row and was looking odds-on for an eighth clean sheet when Lebitso scored with a back post header for Chippa five minutes into stoppage time at the end of the DStv Premiership clash.

It meant Williams fell two short of equaling the PSL record set by Wayne Roberts at Wits University in the 2003-04 season, when he kept nine successive clean sheets.

The 30-year-old, who has played in all of Sundowns’ 16 league games this season and conceded only six times, is now in second place in the list of goalkeepers with most successive clean sheets, joining former Sundowns goalkeeper Calvin Marlin, who achieved the feat in the title-winning 2006-07 season.

The record of seven clean sheets in a row is also by Kennedy Mweene at Free State Stars (2007-08) while Moeneeb Josephs kept seven clean sheets in a row for Orlando Pirates in the 2009-10 season and then again for Bidvest Wits in the 2015-16 campaign.

Josephs also had a separate run of six successive clean sheets in the 2009-10 season.

AmaZulu’s Veli Mothwa has kept six clean sheets in a row for AmaZulu in two successive seasons — in the 2020-21 campaign and again last term.

Other goalkeepers with six clean sheets in a row are Brian Baloyi (Kaizer Chiefs 02/03), Itumeleng Khune (Chiefs 16/17), Denis Onyango (Sundowns 21/22) and Brendon Wardle (Santos 03/04).

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