Rulani Mokwena is not involved with the sounds surrounding the officiating in Mamelodi Sundowns’ final two video games against Young Africans and Cape City Spurs.
The Brazilians progressed to the semifinals of the Caf Champions League in controversial vogue adhering to the 3-2 get on penalties around Yanga of Tanzania very last Friday.
Sundowns recorded a narrow 1- more than Spurs in the DStv Premiership on Tuesday night soon after Peter Shalulile gained a penalty and Lucas Ribeiro scored from the resultant spot kick.
Yanga nonetheless experience aggrieved and declare that they had been denied a genuine aim though Spurs followers are also not happy with the penalty that was awarded to Sundowns as they felt the foul was exterior the box.
“I just watched the online games and in my feeling, the conclusions were being correct and that is just my view since I’m not an formal,” Mokwena reported ahead of Friday’s Nedbank Cup quarterfinal clash towards AmaTuks in the Tshwane derby.
“Of course, these are items that take place in football. We missing in the MTN8 closing on the again of choices that I considered were being not truthful on us but that is soccer.
“I believe these issues even by themselves out. I believe at the conclude of the day, you acquire some and you reduce some. That is the character of soccer and sport you can’t often be on the getting end of the problem.”
Tuks challenge
Masandawana will perform neighbours, the College of Pretoria at Lucas Masterpieces Moripe Stadium for a area in the semifinals. They were being knocked out in this spherical of the of the valuable cup competitiveness past season by Stellenbosch FC.
“You fellas laughed when just one of the colleagues questioned me what does it just take to acquire the champions league and I claimed ‘you require a good deal of luck,’” Mokwena continued.
“When I observed the incident versus Yanga, I said we had a lot of luck as opposed to final season where we missing. We conceded the next target and I assumed we were being incredibly unlucky (in opposition to Wydad).
“I considered there was a push on Mothobi (Mvala) for the equaliser to make it 2-2 and we didn’t get the rub of the green if you’d like to simply call it that and this time I assumed we had some quite fantastic fortunate times.”