Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Miguel Cardoso praised his players for “showing the badge” in a 3-1 comeback win against RB Leipzig at the Lucas Masterpieces Moripe Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Brazilians hosted the German Bundesliga outfit in a post-season friendly to celebrate their CAF Champions League triumph with the Yellow Nation in Pretoria.<\/p>\n
The Red Bulls got off to a good start when Samba Konate opened the scoring on 22 minutes, but a second-half fightback saw Bryan Leon (76′ 89′) bag a brace before Bennet Mokoena (90+2′) sealed the victory late on.<\/p>\n
Cardoso was pleased with how organised Bafana Ba Style were in the first half to keep themselves in the contest before turning up the intensity in the second half. <\/p>\n
“I think the first half was very good in terms of compromise from the team, trying to be always organised and have the ball as best as possible, we saw Denis [Onyango] giving the strongest example of how to keep the ball, being always available to play under big pressure,” the Portuguese tactician told SABC Sport.<\/p>\n
“You saw a lot of numbers in the front but I told the boys they have to enjoy it and profit. It will be better to suffer a goal from a mistake than from a throw-in the front that can give a counter-attack and then the excitement came at half-time.<\/p>\n
“They were feeling so comfortable, I told the guys let’s keep the rhythm, dynamic, discipline and let’s enjoy the game and try to bring the game as much as possible to our intensity.<\/p>\n
“They released energy, let it flow – it’s a match without responsibility, well it’s a match with responsibility but no pressure with the result and we had a beautiful, beautiful game with a lot of boys showing [themselves].<\/p>\n
“Bennet with a fantastic bend, Kutlwano [Lethlaku] was good in the first half – well there’s no space to speak about individuals when you see such a beautiful match like today.<\/p>\n
“But I really want to leave a word to complement the players today. I think our president is very happy because they asked us to really try to show the badge.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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