Mamelodi Sundowns have the quality, but Wydad AC have all the experience, and it was experience that won the day for them as the defending champions marched on to another showdown against Al Ahly in the CAF Champions League.
And the sad thing is, one can't buy experience with any amount of cash, but more often than not, one pays for it through painful experiences, as Sundowns did on Saturday afternoon.
A team that has made Africa sit up and take notice with their cutting edge brand of football, couldn't take their game a gear up against a determined Wydad, whom as they showed when they twice came from behind to force a 2-2 draw, still had more gears to change to according to the game's demands.
Sundowns head coach, Rulani Mokwena, accepted that lack of experience let his side down.
“The difference is the experience, you can’t buy it. We’ve got to learn from it, we’ve got to feel what it feels like to lose,” Mokwena told SuperSport TV as quoted by iDiski Times. https://www.idiskitimes.co.za/caf-champions-league/mokwena-makes-bold-claim-after-cafcl-exit/
“We’ll win the Champions League, for sure. We will win it.
“It will take another season maybe and another season. And maybe… But we will do it, we will get there."
It is the painful lessons that came with Saturday afternoon's defeat which Mokwena believes will make Sundowns a better side.
“We just have to take these painful experiences as lessons.”
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“There is a lot [of lessons we’ll take from this game],” he added.
“At the moment, I’m too emotional to even think about the lessons but we go again.
“I’m wishing Wydad all the best for the final. We call it ‘football heritage’ but we will learn from it, we will be better, we will get there.”
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