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Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Miguel Cardoso has made a request to the supporters ahead of their MTN8 semi-final second leg against Orlando Pirates on Saturday.
The Brazilians returned to winning was on Wednesday evening after defeating Magesi FC 2-0 in the Betway Premiership.
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The win comes days after the 1-1 draw with the Buccaneers at Orlando Stadium, but they will now look to finish the job in Pretoria this weekend.
Cardoso has now urged the Sundowns faithful to bring a lot of energy, while claiming his players are still going through a ‘pre-season’ following their participation in the FIFA Club World Cup.
“Look, we have 21 training sessions this season, 21. For us, it’s absolutely pre-season we are in a schedule with matches one after the other. So, the team is being resilient but the aggression of every match is taking much more impact on us,” Cardoso told SuperSport after the game.
“And we had to bring the youngsters because the squad is much more smaller, for sure it will be stronger in the future and then we’ll grow. For sure, others will join the group so that we can have more power because we need, we need more for the objective ahead of us, we need more.
“We managed contacts as groups as coaches, as a club and we represented ourselves and South Africa in a wonderful way in the Club World Cup. Everybody knew that because of that we would have two weeks of vacation and three weeks of preparation. So, our preparation have been going since this first three weeks of competition,” stated the coach.
“We knew that we need to be resilient, we need to be mentally strong, we need to fight for every match with the most energy we can so that we can put the results that can take us in the front and next match will not be different.
“We hope we have the Masandawana family filling our stadiums that we get energy from them like today we felt them here. It will be a beautiful match for sure,” Cardoso noted.
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