Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Miguel Cardoso believes that two factors that drove his charges to the late win were spirit and believe.
Masandawna netted two late goals via Nuno Santos in the 91st minute before Brayan Léon Muñiz wrapped it up two minutes later as the defending Betway Premiership champions beat Sekhukhune United 2-0 at the New Peter Mokaba Stadium.
Speaking to SuperSport TV after the match, the Portuguese mentor congratulated everyone associated with the club which he reckons got them over Babina Noko.
“This is the spirit the team had today. We felt the spirit inside the pitch, we felt the spirit in the locker room, we felt it in the stands, and this is really the spirit of Ubuntu that we have in our shirts,” he said.
“The families today, congratulations to everybody.
“Today was a game of a lot of creativity. We knew that the game probably would finish in the end, but we told the boys today, the starters would be as important as the finishers in order to put intensity, rhythm to make the Sekhukhune players tired to force them to really run in the end without energy and capacity to process everything we could make.
“Fantastic pressure we had to prepare this match. It was beautiful, we brought almost all team.
“They understood that they had to be committed and congratulations. Congratulations to the players, congratulations to everybody that believes.
“We need all the fans to believe on us. To really believe and lift the spirit of the team and we dedicate the victory to the ones that are always with us.”
Did you know that the iDiski Times Digital Newspaper is completely free! Download it now by clicking the button below or fill in the form to have it sent to you every week.