Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Miguel Cardoso felt his side should have scored more goals in their CAF Champions League final first-leg victory over FAR Rabat.

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The Brazilians secured a 1-0 victory over the Moroccan outfit thanks to a super free-kick by Aubrey Modiba at Loftus Versfeld Stadium on Sunday evening.

Sundowns will look to put the game to bed in the return leg when they travel to the Stade Prince Moulay Abdallah in Rabat on Sunday.

Cardoso admitted Sundowns should have taken a bigger advantage into the second leg, but praised his side’s mentality and tactical discipline following their first-leg victory over FAR Rabat at Loftus Versfeld.

“Five I think it’s a bit too much and eventually not fair, but yeah, we should’ve scored one more goal and create a little bit better advantage and have one foot in the front. Anyway, we showed we can compete with this team as we compete with any other team,” Cardoso told SuperSport TV after the match.

“We need to take the energy into the second match of course so that we can fight for the trophy. We should not drop any kind of energy because we didn’t score, the moment of decisions are upfront and we need to look at the second match.

“Be able to close our ears, forget what happens in the stands and play the football we can play whenever in the continent that’s what we need to do.”

“I think our defensive transition we were in most part of the game ok, we could control the spaces in our defence, it’s just more our offensive transition. It’s not easy to break this team on counter-attack, break-attacks because their full-back attack a lot.

“So, there were not much in terms of spaces. I think we had to manage the ball and take them inside to the other in order to increase and in that moment find spaces. Here and there were not able but we were in the major part of the game. That’s the mentality we need to take in the second match.”