Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Miguel Cardoso says CAF Champions League matches are for outcomes, not performances after being questioned by Tunisian media over his type of play.
Cardoso grinded out 1-0 wins house and away with Esperance over the Rulani Mokwena-led Sundowns final season, which many thought-about a smash and seize as Sundowns dominated possession with many of the probabilities within the house and away legs of the semi-final.
With Mokwena since left and Cardoso taking on mid-season, changing Manqoba Mngqithi, he now faces his former facet for a spot within the last-four of Africa’s elite membership competitors, and forward of the 2nd leg in Rades, the place Sundowns maintain a 1-0 benefit, the native press has questioned how a lot the type of soccer at Sundowns has modified from final season.
“Champions League matches are for outcomes, I bear in mind final yr, most of you [media] criticised performances that Esperance did after which reached the ultimate, we by no means, as coaches, fear in regards to the opinions of others once we know what we’re doing…
“We all know what we’re doing, final yr, I don’t need to return on that, it’s not sort to talk about coaches who usually are not right here, it was performed with different coaches… What we have to perceive is what we’re right here to do.
“We all know what we’re going to do, the best way to put together ourselves for the match, what we have to take contained in the pitch, the dedication we have to take and no extra.”
Mosa Lebusa, who was current alongside the coach, within the pre-match press convention had his say too, when questioned about Cardoso’s position with a contrasting type of Mokwena.
“I feel each coach is completely different with their philosophies and we’re fortunate sufficient to have a coach, who was within the remaining final season, he’s serving to us, making us realise our full potential, to not say the opposite coaches didn’t,” Lebusa stated.
“He’s completely different in his personal manner and we’re specializing in attempting to be higher than we have been in earlier seasons, in that regard, he’s actually main us and the opposite coaches did job however proper now we’re specializing in the current.?
The 2 sides meet on the Stade Olympique Hammadi Agrebi this night (21h00).
