Mamelodi Sundowns' big target

07 April 2016 - 02:42 By Marc Strydom

Pitso Mosimane earned a "double" by winning the PSL's coach of the month award for January and February, but even that feat was overshadowed by the prospect of Sundowns' CAF Champions League match against AS Vita Club on Sunday.Downs meet the highly regarded Democratic Republic of Congo campaigners on an artificial surface in the weekend's away leg of a second-round tie, the winners of which will reach the group stages.Mosimane said his own experience playing in tough venues as Bafana coach and with Sundowns last year would stand the Brazilians in good stead to play at Stade Tata Raphael in Kinshasa.He singled out his side's 3-1 defeat in Lubumbashi against TP Mazembe in last year's Champions League."There are venues that, when you get there, you feel you are on your own. Lubumbashi is still in my system," the coach said.Mosimane said Sundowns would aim to play clever, positive football in Kinshasa."We believe we can win, we believe we can score."The main reason for me coming to Sundowns was the vision of the club in Africa, and I had the fever from five years of not being in the PSL. Sundowns are a very strong team and what's important is that we need to believe against Vita."Today we watched the replay of the game this season that really stretched us - the game against Pirates at Orlando Stadium."The second half was tough for us. We're working on improving on that game, on what we did right and what made us hang onto the two-goal lead from the first half."We had the mentality that said we can score and one that said we can hang in there. And that's how we can get a decent result in Kinshasa," he said.Kaizer Chiefs' Willard Katsande prevented a clean sweep of the monthly awards to Sundowns yesterday by winning player of the month award for January.Brazilians midfielder Kekana won it for February.Katsande credited his award to the hard work of his Chiefs team-mates.Sport on the tubeTODAYAthletics: Varsity Athletics Meeting 1 Maties from 5.20pm on SS5Basketball: Turkish Airlines Euroleague Top 16 Round 14 - Real Madrid v Khimki Moscow Region from 8.35pm on SS2Golf: The Masters Day 1 from 9pm on SS1Rugby: Currie Cup qualifier week 1 - ORC Griquas v Down Touch Griffons from 6.40pm on SS1Soccer: UEFA Europa League quarterfinals 1st leg - Borussia Dortmund v Liverpool from 9pm on SS3, Athletic Bilbao v Sevilla from 9pm on SS5, Villarreal v Sparta Prague from 9pm on SS6, Sporting Braga v Shakhtar Donetsk from 9pm on SS7; Nedbank Cup: Draw Quarterfinal draw from 7pm on SS4..

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