For all the talk about Peter Shalulile not being the most talented to ever play this game, the Namibian keeps doing the most important job on the field with aplomb.
With goals being what makes the difference in a football match more than possession, sublime skills and all else, Shalulile keeps banging them with consistency and at a rate that has never been recorded before.
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Not even the all-time leading scorer Siyabonga Nomvethe scored his 123 goals at a rate comparable to how Shalulile is doing when factoring goals scored against games played.
Neither Daniel Mudau (110 goals in the PSL era years) nor any of Mabhuti Khenyeza (110 goals), Bradley Grobler (107 goals), Manuel 'Tico-Tico' Bucuane (104), and Collins Mbesuma (103 goals) are anywhere close to the proficiency with which Shalulile is doing it.
Wednesday night's goal was number 111 playing for a top league South African club for Shalulile.
The man who has his roots in Eengolo, near the Angolan border, needed 45 minutes against Cape Town Spurs to add his ninth for the season and come within 13 goals of setting a new PSL era scoring record.
Shaluile has reached his 111 goals in just 215 appearances.
With a rate of 1,9 games per goal it means he always has a goal in him before the end of his second match.
This is by far the best goals to games rate compared to any of Nomvethe, Mudau, Mbesuma, and all others that have gone past 100 goals in the PSL era years who have all needed a minimum of 2,5 appearances per goal.
Shalulile's rate would have been better had it not been for the struggles that he had to deal with in his first season playing in the DStv Premiership while at Highlands Park when he scored once in 15 matches.
Even his second season in the top league after returning from the first division wasn't the best – based on the standards that he has set – as he netted seven in 27 games playing in a team that was merely satisfied with staying alive in the league.
Ultimately, his scoring rate at Highlands was a goal every three games.
At Sundowns, Shalulile – whose market value is now at R50 million – has scored a goal in every 1,65 matches that he has played.
Shalulile's goals with a top league club have come within the shortest period ever with his first having come as recent as February 2017.
He scored just once in that 2016/17 season as Highlands were then relegated back to the first division where he spent the next season before then returning for the 2018/19 season during which he scored seven.
Since August 2019, Shalulile has moved on to score 103 goals.
Shalulile has scored 84 goals in 39 months of reporting for duty to Chloorkop and needs just 16 to reach 100 for Sundowns and become only the second to do so for the club after Mudau.
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The 30-year-old has another 19 games to play in the DStv Premiership plus at least three in the CAF Champions League and a minimum of one in the Nedbank Cup.
This means a minimum of 23 games which could stretch to 33 if Sundowns reach the finals of both the Champions League and Nedbank Cup.
Shalulile's goals as a top league player as of 14/12/2023:
Sundowns – 84 (134 games) plus 22 assists
2023/ 24 – 9 (16 games) plus 2 assists
2022/23 – 23 (34 games) plus 5 assists
2021/22 – 30 (45 games) plus 7 assists
2020/21 – 22 (39 games) plus 8 assists
Highlands Park – 27 (81 games) plus 6 assists
2019/20 – 19 (39 games) plus 2 assists
2018/19 – 7 (27 games) plus 4 assists
2017/18 – NFD
2016/17 – 1 (15 games)
Total: 111 goals (215 games)