Sundowns Ladies target unbeaten Hollywoodbets Super League finish

Sundowns remain at the top of the log with 34 points from 12 matches, having recorded 11 wins and one draw.

Speaking to SABC Sport, Sapula says the team is determined to maintain its high standards and set the bar even higher in the league.

"The teams below us, you can see that everybody is fighting, it's not predictable who's gonna win against. If you also check the other stream but because for us we knew that because it's 14 matches we can actually push to give everything we have in all the matches and try to win all the matches because our target was to say 14 games compared to 30 is less than half so we can actually win all 14 games,” Sapula said.

“Actually that was the target for us and so far so good for us. We were able to actually win, out of the 12 played already winning 11 and one draw. Yes, maybe the standard can still improve and yeah but we also want to make sure that as the other teams are coming, we also try to raise the bar a bit."

Sapula says the team has also been working on improving the players’ physical conditioning to prepare them for continental competitions and ensure they can maintain a high level of performance beyond the domestic league.

"For us, we try and check where the benchmark is and our analysis it's really clear when it comes to the growth in the women's game and the evolution, physicality is number one,” the coach added.

“You know if you had also watched WAFCON, you could see that the physicality is up there, meaning for us to compete, we're gonna raise our level of physicality. Our physical exertion also, you can check even when we are winning or leading we don't compromise on physicality because we have targets. 

“The players have the GPS vests, GPS data, to check, to say come let's see, what was your physical exertion in this game. So, we are driven by our own ambitions and we are the benchmark obviously here but our benchmark is not here, it's CAF. 

“To keep up with that it means we gotta do certain things properly here which obviously increase the level of physicality in our game and we are trying to do that even when there's no resistance, we put our own resistance."