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Rulani Mokwena makes plea to Mamelodi Sundowns supporters

Rulani Mokwena makes plea to Mamelodi Sundowns supporters

Mamelodi Sundowns co-coach Rulani Mokwena has made a request to the supporters after the defeat to TS Galaxy.

Sundowns suffered their first defeat of the DStv Premiership season in a 1-0 loss to the Rockets at Loftus Versfeld on Wednesday evening.

"Ja, what's there to say, 70 percent ball possession, 18 chances, four big chances and then they get two chances," Mokwena said on SuperSport after the game.

"The one that they got from a transition and another one with 'Vila' on a one-on-one with Ronwen Williams but relatively almost nothing. So move on it's gonna be a very long season, very long season.

"There's no time in football, you've got to win matches, we're in a sport of winning matches, as coaches our jobs is to win matches.

"The performance today was not good, we had too many players that were struggling with the touch, the intensity of the game and that's our responsibility to make sure the team is prepared.

"So when the team is not prepared, we don't have enough hunger, we don't have enough aggression, then we have to look at our preparation and try to be better prepared because there's a big game on Saturday [against Kaizer Chiefs]."

The Sundowns faithful were remained in good spirits after the game, but Mokwena believes they could have helped them team if they continued to sing throughout the match when they were a goal down.

"It's beautiful but I'd like to see this when the game is playing, they can be a little bit vocal when it's 1-0 you know, push the team a little bit more, maybe that's the extra piece that's missing for us particularly for the (CAF) Champions League but these are beautiful scenes," he added.

"And this is what you truly call supporters, people who are together with you in good and bad moments, so we appreciate them, hopefully we can do better, push and try to make them happy on Saturday."

Sundowns recently unveiled their new kit

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