Mamelodi Sundowns is confident that it’ll return with the trophy, during its CAF Champions League final second-leg match against Pyramids FC of Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday.
This after the teams played to a 1-1 draw in the first leg of the competition on Saturday at the Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria.
Sundowns Assistant coach Steve Komphela said the team is ruining its missed chances to score enough goals during the first leg encounter, after the Egyptians equalized in the dying minutes.
“One-one is a good score for us.
In as much as we shared the spoils the expectation is that we would have loved to win the match, everybody would have loved to go to Cairo, 2-0, 3-0, but it is what is it now.
So, we just have to go to Egypt with the understanding that go there, score the two goals required and win the match, or score the goal required don’t concede and then come back with the trophy,” said Komphela, who was addressing the media in Sandton.
Komphela highlighted that the team has done its homework and would be weary in the second leg.
“We should benefit and leverage from the fact that we’ve had the experience here, we could see what happened.
We can rectify some of the things we went through, we could have done better.
We’ve seen what they can do and how we could overcome those,” explained the assistant coach.
Komphela’s comments were echoed by the club’s defender, Mthobi Mvala, who just returned following a long way off through injury.
The injury saw the 30-year-old loose his place in the team and Bafana Bafana too and is now confident that he has recovered fully to be back on the field again.
“We’re happy as the team to achieve one of the goals we set at the start of the season, but not with the results.
We did well, started well and lost concentration in the dying minutes and didn’t mark well and must improve on that.
We need to kill the game early, score more goals, three goals will kill their confidence,” explained Mvala.
Sundowns will head to the US for the Club World Cup next month, with the hope that it’ll participate at the tournament as the current CAF champions.
