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The Kagiso-born mentor feels his rivals have done well to get something out of the season, but cautioned that his team won’t go down without a real fight t
Mamelodi Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane has admitted a great title ahead of the final day of the season, where the PSL champions will be crowned.
The Tshwane giants are tied at 53 points with record leaders Kaizer Chiefs and will need a great performance against Black Leopards to dethrone their title rivals.
As it stands, the Chiefs are +21 goals ahead of Sundowns’ +18, meaning Mosimane’s men have to beat Leopards by at least five unanswered goals as long as Ernst Middendorp’s win. and beat Baroka by a single goal.
Mosimane said the goal is to give everything they have against Leopards regardless of what happens elsewhere, adding that the Sundowns must retire as true competitors even if they lose the title to the Chiefs.
“We need to win our last game in the league and say goodbye as credible competitors and people,” Mosimane told reporters.
In what many would see as typical Mosimane mind games, the 56-year-old mentor declared that Amakhosi deserves something from this season after going five full seasons without a big piece of silver.
“You have to give it to the Chiefs. I mean they haven’t won anything in the last five or six years. They are a great team and they deserve something, to be honest and they fought for it. So ‘it’s okay because you can.’ everything but we are fighting, “he continued.
While Mosimane admitted that the Sundowns may miss out on a title shot, he is still proud of the season his team has had, especially considering the congested match schedule they had to deal with throughout the season.
“We made the semi-final stage of MTN8, we won the Telkom Knockout and we reached the final of the Nedbank Cup and now it is as if we have reached the final of the league. That shows that we are a team of substance and we are credible,” he added. Mosimane.
“I think you know how many games we have played now; you can calculate the number of games we have played. We have to be grateful but we are going to do our best in our last league game against Leopards and we are going to leave our skin on him. countryside.”
