Manqoba Mngqithi is confident that Mamelodi Sundowns can secure victory in their upcoming CAF Champions League match against Raja Casablanca this weekend.
The Brazilians have two draws from their opening two CAF games, drawing 0-0 with Maniema Union and being held to a 1-1 draw with AS FAR.
While Downs is second in Group B with two points, Raja is bottom with just one point from their 1-1 Maniema tie.
Speaking ahead of the clash, a bullish Mngqithi said in The Citizen: “I’d be lying to you if I said that this is a perfect start for us because in both matches that we played, if you look at all the metrics, I think we dominated in all facets of the game’.
“It’s just short of us converting all the chances that we got but otherwise we were just unfortunate not to win the first two matches.
“As Sundowns, we can do better but I’m still very optimistic that by the time we finish this group, it will look completely different.”
Mngqithi is promising a much more competitive Sundowns for the visit of Raja to Loftis Versfeld.
“It will be very different (in Pretoria) and that’s a promise I can keep, ” he added.
“If we could play the way we played against them in front of all their supporters making very good noise and the atmosphere in the stadium, I think in Pretoria it’ll be very different.”