Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Miguel Cardoso says their run of nine consecutive wins doesn’t win them the title and there’s not mycg room for error from now until the end of the season.
Sundowns secured their ninth straight win with a 4-1 trouncing of Chippa United on Good Friday at Loftus Versfeld to move back top of the table, two points ahead of Orlando Pirates – who had smashed TS Galaxy 6-0 before the FIFA International break.
But Cardoso played down the sequence of victories and said their focus needs to be on the next game against Durban City on Tuesday, before they take their attentions for the CAF Champions League semi-final against Esperance Sportive de Tunis.
“Very important [to win nine consecutive games] but not enough, we need to look forward and continue to collect [wins], because if we sit on what we did, for sure we will not arrive where we need to arrive,” Cardoso said.
“So next match, let’s try to go to Durban, make a job similar to what we have been doing, not worrying about how many [goals or wins], I don’t even think about that, because it takes you to a spot or place, that gives you nothing.
“So we cannot leg it go, we have to think about the next ones and of course, if we want to be champions, we need to make a good series of victories in the matches we still have – for sure, and there will be not space of many loses of points.
“So we have to always think about the next one, so next one will take us to this squence of two matches, then we stop for the Champions League, then there will be three more matches on the month.
“So focus is now the Durban match, Champions League, then we back into the league, not space too lose many points, so we have to add more victories to that [nine wins] for sure.”
Sundowns travel to Durban on Monday and will fly directly to Tunis after the league clash against the fifth-placed side for their first leg against Taraji.
