Mouloudia Algiers coach calls for turning the page on the Champions League – New Algeria

The coach of the Mouloudia Algiers team, Rulani Mokoena, called for turning the page on exclusion from the CAF Champions League and focusing on the championship and Algeria Cup competitions.

andmaximum Mouloudia Club of Algiers, from the CAF Champions League, after its defeat yesterday, Saturday, against its host, Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa (0-2), for the sixth and final round of the group stage.

Mouloudia only needed a draw point to qualify in second place in the third group, with the Sudanese club Al Hilal, the leaders. But the Algerian champion was defeated by its host, South Africa, with a score of two goals to zero, scored by Colombian Brian Leon Muniz in the 6th and 63rd minutes of the match.

With this result, the Mouloudia Algiers team finished the group stage in third place, with 7 points, while Sun Downs qualified in second place (9 points), behind Sudanese Al-Hilal (11 points), which yesterday defeated its guest, Saint-Ilois Loubobo of Congo (1-0).

Mouloudia Algiers coach Rolani said MokoenaIn the press conference that followed yesterday’s match, he said: “We need more work in the coming period. We will benefit from the lessons, and we will come back stronger, and we must now focus on the championship and the cup.”

Mokoena admitted that his opponent deserved to win in yesterday’s confrontation, when he said: “Congratulations to Sun Downs. They were the best in the match, and they deserve to win. I wish them the best in the rest of the journey.”

He added: “I think that the exclusion is not only due to this loss. We lost some points in the previous rounds, such as what happened to us against Al Hilal in Rwanda, and in our stadium against Sun Downs.”

He continued: “I think this is what made the difference in the issue of qualification. We lost points, as also happened in our match against Lupopo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but this is football.”

It is worth noting that the second representative of Algeria in the CAF Champions League, JS Kabylie, was also eliminated from the group stage, while USM Alger and CS Belouizdad qualified for the quarter-finals of the CAF Confederation Cup.