Sundowns, SuperSport and University of Pretoria will be subjected to high intensity matches ahead of the new season.
|||Johannesburg - Tshwane sides Mamelodi Sundowns, SuperSport United and University of Pretoria will be subjected to high intensity matches ahead of the start of the next season.
It’s no secret that Sundowns and SuperSport will be setting their sights on the Absa Premiership title, and SuperSport coach Gordon Igesund has just two weeks left to practice what he preached last season.
“This season we are going to challenge for the championship. There are a lot of goals in this team and we will compete,” said Igesund whose men will get a much-needed taste of competitive football when they face English Premiership side Crystal Palace during the Cape Town Cup to be held at Cape Town Stadium on Friday evening.
The second match of the night will see Ajax Cape Town battle it out against Portuguese giants Sporting Lisbon.
Sundowns are away in Namibia, where this afternoon they will play in the Dr Hage Geingob Trophy as part of their pre-season activity.
Last weekend the Brazilians won the Charity Showdown in Pretoria. The week before they played in Zambia where they featured in a preseason tournament.
Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane says the experience that his men are amassing in other African countries is vital.
“We always go to Africa. We prepare well and people come to stadiums in Africa. In Zambia they gave us an opportunity. They are in the middle of the season and people want to see Sundowns. We played Zesco, a top team in their Champions League. They won a double last year. It was a difficult game but we scraped through 1-0. It’s okay, we are getting there,” said Mosimane.
“We are in our third week of our bid to become match ready but we aren’t there yet. That’s why we can’t play for 90 minutes. We did 60 minutes in Zambia and only 45 minutes in Mbombela.”
Tuks will also be in action, in the Mbombela pre-season tournament at the Mbombela Stadium. They will take on Platinum Stars in the first match while Bidvest Wits square off against Platinum Stars in the second match.
Tuks coach, Sammy Troughton, who has signed seven new players, is hoping to use the tournament to get the newcomers to adapt to his way of playing.
“We’re looking forward to the Mbombela tournament as it will be very beneficial for us coming just two weeks before the start of the season. We are busy putting a team together, which should be better than last year’s. I think top eight is within our reach,” he said.
The Star
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