Mamelodi Sundowns coach Miguel Cardoso was pleased to see his side compete against AS FAR Rabat, but felt they should have scored more on Sunday evening.
The Brazilians carry a slender first-leg advantage thanks to Aubrey Modiba's impressive free-kick in the first half..
The Masandawana coach is pleased the win indicates their ability to compete amongst the best there is particularly on the continent.
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“Five I think it’s a bit too much and eventually not fair, but yeah, we should’ve scored one more goal and create a little bit better advantage and have one foot in the front. Anyway, we showed we can compete with this team as we compete with any other team,” Cardoso told SuperSport after the match.
“We need to take the energy into the second match of course so that we can fight for the trophy. We should not drop any kind of energy because we didn’t score, the moment of decisions are upfront and we need to look at the second match.
“Be able to close our ears, forget what happens in the stands and play the football we can play whenever in the continent that’s what we need to do."
Cardoso was pleased with how the Brazilians were able to keep the defensive shape and managing the spaces on the transition.
“I think our defensive transition we were in most part of the game ok, we could control the spaces in our defence, it’s just more our offensive transition. It’s not easy to break this team on counter-attack, break-attacks because their full-back attack a lot.
“So, there were not much in terms of spaces. I think we had to manage the ball and take them inside to the other in order to increase and in that moment find spaces. Here and there were not able but we were in the major part of the game. That’s the mentality we need to take in the second match,” Cardoso said.
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