Before the match, both teams observed a minute’s silence in memory of Jayden Adams who passed away on July 11 at the age of just 25. Both teams wore black armbands for the entirety of the match.<\/p>\n
New signing Antonio van Wyk was immediately into the starting XI alongside Iqraam Rayners and Bennet Mokoena in attack.<\/p>\n
Miguel Cardoso’s side were up against a team who had already had three pre-season friendlies under their belt but it took the Bundesliga 2 side until the 39th minute to score the game’s opening goal when Leon Jensen volleyed home from close range after The Brazilians failed to deal with a ball in their six-yard box.<\/p>\n
However, the reigning African champions shot back just two minutes later through Van Wyk who showed quick reactions to pounce on a loose ball in the box.<\/p>\n
Neither side were able to find a goal in the second half despite multiple changes from the substitute benches, including the introduction of Cassius Mailula who is yet to be officially announced as a Sundowns player.<\/p>\n
The South African side have a quick turnaround as they face Saudi Pro League Al Hilal on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before the match, both teams observed a minute’s silence in memory of Jayden Adams who passed away on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[64598,64602,112,190,7270,64600,64603,64597,64596,64599,64604,64601],"class_list":["post-132951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-a-modiba","tag-a-van-wyk","tag-berlin","tag-germany","tag-hertha-berlin","tag-i-rayners","tag-m-cardoso","tag-m-mmolai","tag-mamelodi-sundowns-fc","tag-r-williams","tag-s-leitl","tag-t-mokoena"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116959826845718840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}