Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Rulani Mokwena has explained what could make them an even better team next season after they were officially crowned champions on Tuesday.
Sundowns won the DStv Premiership for the sixth time in a row with seven matches to spare but were officially handed their trophy in their last game of the season in a 1-1 draw against Maritzburg United on Tuesday.
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The Brazilians narrowly missed out on breaking their own record for the most points in a season by two points after ending their campaign with 70 points, two points shy of breaking the record held by the 2015-16 squad under former coach Pitso Mosimane (71).
Mokwena, despite their massive achievement, has outlined that they can still be better, taking into account the injuries they've had this season.
"I'm very happy with the squad that we have, it's a very good squad with very good players who have even greater potential to improve still, so much room to improve," Mokwena said in a press conference.
"When you think about what this group of players have done, you forget that Peter (Shalulile) missed half the season, we're talking top goal-scorer, Peter only joined us in December.
"Lebo Maboe was one of the players last season who played almost every single match, Riva (Rivaldo Coetzee) has missed most part of the season, (Abubaker) Nasir missed most part of the season," he explained.
"We had Abdelmounaim (Boutouil) miss most part of the season and only came now recently. We've had injuries to Grant (Kekana), we've had injuries to Gaston (Sirino) who is still a player that's got the highest number of assists in our team."
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The 36-year old coach went on and praised his charges for keeping the consistency despite the challenges that they've faced.
"So if you look at what we've done, the way we've played, with the consistency that we have and also you understand the number of injuries that we were unfortunate with this season and we just kept going, is incredible what this group of players have done and I'm very proud of them and very proud to be their coach," he added.
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