No time to rest for Mamelodi Sundowns says Bathusi Aubass

The Brazilians arrived in the early hours of Monday morning from Tunisia where they faced Esperance in the first leg of the CAF Champions League semifinals.

Downs will play the return leg on Friday night, but must first honour their domestic commitments with Aubass discussing their approach.

"We arrived around midnight and then we've been doing regen and recovery that's the protocol of the team. Then obviously we don't have time on our side so we needed that recovery and regen," Aubass said.

Aubass says they will not undermine Babina Noko, who are fourth on the log table and are in a confident mood after coach Lehlohonolo Seema and captain Linda Mntambo were voted Coach and Player of the Month recently.

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"First of all, I know they have been doing well and the likes of Linda Mntambo has been injured then he came back and he has been doing well and helped the team then got 'Player of the Month' and also their coach got 'Coach of the month' and they won two games and drew three," he added.

With Sundowns having one eye on the Champions League clash on Friday having been unable to reschedule it, it’s expected that coach Rulani Mokwena will rotate the squad and leave out some of the key players who were involved at the weekend.

Aubaas warns against taking Sekhukhune lightly.

"I can't say we will undermine them and obviously we're going there as Mamelodi Sundowns doing our job and doing our job is to win the game. I would like to call the supporters, yellow nation to come and support us and give us the energy to keep on going."