Mamelodi Sundowns and Al Ahly are set to go head-to-head this Saturday in a crucial CAF Champions League Group A clash.
With Percy Tau getting into his groove at Al Ahly, Rulani Mokwena, coach of Mamelodi Sundowns, revealed why he prefers not to speak about the Bafana Bafana international.
“Percy Tau is playing completely different in the last 3 games, compared to how he played against us. In Cairo he played three different positions in 90 minutes,” Mokwena told the media at the club’s Chloorkop base.
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11 March
⏰ 15H00
Loftus Versfeld
CAF CL
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“But he’s a very good player, one of our best exports and I don’t speak too much about him because he is not a Mamelodi Sundowns player so I’ve got to have a lot of respect for how I speak about players that are not my players, and of course, I am a little biased in my opinion of Percy, so I try not to say too much, so I will leave it at that.”
One of the tasks Mokwena will have on his hands at the Loftus Versveld Stadium is to keep Tau quiet, something Sundowns have managed to do in the past three matches, with Tau yet to find the back of the net against his former side.
A win for Sundowns on Saturday will see them all but qualify for the quarterfinal of the CAF Champions League, while a win for Al Ahly could see them go level on points with Sundowns on seven points.
All eyes, then, will be on the match between the two sides as they battle it out for a place in the next round.
