Mamelodi Sundowns (ZAF) vs Esperance de Tunis (TUN) | CAF Champions League HIGHLIGHTS | 04/01/25

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00:00Here we go then with a long-range shot coming in and it's gone wide, why not give it a go

00:12and Ronan Williams will pick up the ball and take the goal kick.

00:18Aubrey Modiba with Luis Suarez Scaleria, Kakane and Mudao are the defenders that we've got

00:29here. Jadon Adams is on fire at the moment, two goals scored for South Africa in their FIFA,

00:36recent FIFA World Cup qualifying and Jadon Adams also scoring a goal in the last outing

00:42for the Mamelodi Sundowns who are top of the South Africa's Betway Premiership.

00:47The typical Sundowns football that we expect to see when they build and they move up is

00:54Marcelo Allende gets the ball out, it's nicely put into the puff, watch out for Makoene,

00:59he gets a good shot in, long-range shots is very much his trademark but he also dictates

01:07be part of the team today but the wife's fine, the baby's fine and he's here and ready to go

01:13with a ball coming over and it was a searching free kick, a set piece coming over and Scaleria

01:22unable to get on the end of it and contact

01:29the big centre-back, over to the right-hand side, Mudao comes up, players moving into different

01:35pockets of space as they do go in search, the ball comes over as a chance for a header,

01:40Jadon Adams unable to really do anything with that, a little bit too high.

01:45No foul and that's a good ball to the right-hand side, now an option here to push forward and find

01:51it, it's Jan Sass, Jan Sass, will he go all the way, pushes it to his right, oh he just steers the

01:56ball wide and a good strong defensive play there from Suarez and finally Esperance come to life

02:02with seven minutes to go, the Brazilian from Porto Alegre.

02:06There's a little bit of a push there from Suarez, Tunisia at the top of their group with 16 points

02:11and probably might be one of the first teams to qualify, well this is fabulous,

02:19very fast and furious, the long range shot coming in from Okoena but it's

02:23scuffed low, doesn't really spook Beshia, Benzema,

02:27Modiba, far post, Suarez goes up but it's easily claimed by Benzaida as we approach the end of the

02:37group, a little bit of a push there from Suarez, Tunisia at the top of their group with 16 points

02:45and probably might be one of the first teams to qualify, well this is fabulous, very fast and

02:52claimed by Benzaida as we approach the end of the

03:01Suarez deals with it perfectly and Esperance push forward, that's a lovely touch

03:09from Ian Sass but that's the end of the first half and Miguel Cardozo paces away quickly

03:20back into the changing rooms where he'll gather with his players, find tactics on how to break

03:28down Esperance but it's Mamelodi sundowns, nil Esperance, Sportive de Tunis nil, halftime in this

03:36Total Energies African Champions League quarterfinal first leg in Loftus-Wersfeld, Pretoria

03:45job well done for Mahe Kanzani's men

03:50now let's see what he can do out here as the referee gets the second half moving

03:57here in Pretoria, the sundowns need to get goals for them to be competitive and Tunis don't really

04:04want to play against the Tunisians in their own backyard, North Africa is always a very complicated

04:09place to go, whether it's Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria or even Libya, it's just not easy

04:21fans make it very complicated, conditions are complicated, everything's difficult, that's Moudaou

04:29Allende

04:32Ribeiro coming in to try and help out

04:37it's a good ball and that's a nicely judged to get behind the defense and a quick ball in

04:43but uh

04:46Ribeiro, Ribeiro that's a good ball over to the far side, the header's there, oh that's fabulous play

04:53look at that and as I said it all just happened so quickly, Chalulile to the rescue

05:03and all of a sudden a slick piece of play from the Brazilians triggers

05:13a quake here at Loftus-Wersfeld, it had to be the the Namibian forward Chalulile

05:2060 second goal in 105 matches played, brilliantly worked

05:28look at this once again, Ribeiro look at that for a sumptuous delivery over, the header was

05:34directed into his path and he just needed to latch on to it in front of the goalkeeper Ben

05:41Saeed, it's one touch football and sometimes you've got to play it to make it happen

05:50so

05:58Jadon Adams and Allende

06:02are two players who are trying to prevent this from going towards Ronald Williams

06:10so

06:23two guys come up, Gelasi's up there as well

06:32so

06:39an opportunity for Esperance is the delivery into the penalty area, he's going to get hold of it

06:44there's a chance for a shot, well it's been blocked, well luckily for the sundowns it's not

06:50over yet and now it's been putting themselves out, just look at this, so there's the clearance

06:56yeah I don't know why

06:57Ben Hamida didn't go for that, he's, when it falls down like that you've got to just go for it

07:08drill it in, in fact it was Ogbele who came from the right hand side rather than

07:13Hamida, the numerical advantage, the players who have been pushed forward is Ribeiro

07:21Brazilian who spent a lot of time playing in Belgium, Charlois, Muscon, there's the ball over

07:26the chop and well Ribeiro can't get anywhere near it, good strong solid defensive play at the back

07:32from Ben Hamida, his goal in the last seven minutes but this is danger for the sundowns

07:40defense, there's the free kick coming in, it's, oh it's just gone over the back and

07:46it was an opportunity there but it's too agile

07:53Moudaou, strong play there from Moudaou, a bit feisty there from Berleli,

08:00really goes in a little bit too much, they won't be too happy with that reaction

08:09you don't kick a ball at anybody

08:10and Suarez is not happy at all and there's

08:20Kato, so telling the players to get away, get out of there, there is no need

08:27and there's the full-time whistle, well they celebrate a one-nil victory, a win is a win at

08:32the end of the day, will it be enough for the sundowns when they head to Tunis for the return

08:39leg of this Total Energy's African Champions League quarterfinal next week

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