Cardoso: We Should Have Scored One More Goal

Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Miguel Cardoso insists they should have scored more goals against AS FAR Rabat in the first leg of the CAF Champions League final.

Aubrey Modiba's impressive free-kick in the first half separated the two sides at Loftus Versfeld on Sunday evening.

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The Brazilians had a number of chances to add to their tally in the second half, but Cardoso was pleased with how his side competed on the day.

“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."

He continued, “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."