Manqoba Mngqithi Says Sundowns Was Playing For Motjeka Madisha!

Manqoba Mngqithi Says Sundowns Was Playing For Motjeka Madisha! Mamelodi Sundowns beat Chippa United by 2 goals to 0.

This is a victory that cements The Brazilians’ position at the top of the table. Mngqithi was left baffled by the amount of clear chances that they couldn’t score.

He says that the 2 goals were in honour of Madisha, their former number 2.

“The game panned out the way we thought, we knew that they would be planting five in the heart of midfield but we had planned for that, we wanted a direct confrontation with our full-backs and their wing-backs,” the Sundowns co-coach told SuperSport TV following the match.

“Both of them did very well, Lebo was exceptional, Lyle was exceptional in dealing with those one v ones but we didn’t score the goals we should have scored, I think today we could have easily scored six or more goals.

“But there are times in football you must accept that maybe Madisha wanted us to only scored two because we were playing for him today so I think it’s fair to give him the two goals that he might have wanted. Because today I honestly believe we deserve to score more than four, five goals but that’s football for you,” he added.

“It’s very important to be very adaptable in our approach and understand what the opponents are doing, that is why maybe one should comment our analysts, they work very hard to present the right information.

“Because that also guides the way we train the team based on those micro-cycles, what does the opposition bring, we look them offensively and defensively and structure our training sessions to try and deal with the areas we feel are the opportunities for us to try to exploit their weaknesses,” he said.

“Unfortunately at times we lose the plot, if you look at the game we played against Swallows, first-half we had adapted to what we knew they are going to present, we dominated the first-half, we could have easily scored a lot of goals in that space.

“But second-half, for whatever reason we decided to sit back, open and bring them into the game, that outcome is probably due to anxiety, the fact that we had not won a match in two games that we had played before.

“So one must accept that sometimes football will give you different answers but tactical organisation of the team is impressive but we’re not ruthless enough, that’s one area that we’re always shouting and fighting for.

“We’re not scoring as many goals as we should and when you come out of this match and have scored two goals, everybody gets excited that you’ve scored two goals but to be honest when you get chances like this, this is one game that should give you six, eight goals and from there you’ve got a very healthy goal difference,” Mngqithi concluded.