Mamelodi Sundowns co-coach Rhulani Mokwena says they are aware of the threat posed by Al Hilal Omdurman ahead of their CAF Champions League group stage opener today.
Sundowns begin their journey to reclaim their second star in Africa when they host the Sudanese outfit at Loftus Stadium (18h00) having qualified for the group stage with a 5-1 aggregate win over Botswana outfit Jwaneng Galaxy.
Mokwena reveals they have watched a number of Al Hilal games including their qualifiers and a friendly tournament.
"Al-Hilal are not a closed book to us because we have watched even their qualifiers in CAF, their games against Asante Kotoko, the 1-0 win away from home," Mokwena said.
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"They had a competition now where they had a three-team tournament with TP Mazembe and Simba and we watched that.
"Unfortunately, at that moment they also had a couple of important players with the Sudanese national team that went into CHAN, they were not part of that three-team tournament.
"But we also had to look at them because we saw a couple of very good individual performances from them in CHAN where the Sudanese national team lost to Nigeria. That helped us to profile some of the players that we were not able to see within the team context."
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