{"id":23829,"date":"2026-02-16T11:59:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/mc-alger-compromised-caf-champions-hopes-long-before-sundowns-defeat-coach\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:35","slug":"mc-alger-compromised-caf-champions-hopes-long-before-sundowns-defeat-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/mc-alger-compromised-caf-champions-hopes-long-before-sundowns-defeat-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"MC Alger\u00a0compromised CAF\u00a0Champions hopes long before Sundowns defeat: Coach\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Reflecting on the loss to his former club, he conceded the team failed to capitalise on key chances earlier in the group stage, leaving them with too much to do in their final fixture. Mokwena said arriving at Loftus Versfeld needing at least a point against a determined Sundowns was always going to be a tall order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t\u00a0get knockout out today, If you\u00a0review our participation in the champions league we let it go and we were away in Rwanda and\u00a0conceded\u00a0first and in the last 10\u00a0minutes to lose it 2-1 \u00a0away from home. We had a lot of chances against\u00a0Sundowns\u00a0and its important to win our home games in the champions league and then we take a one when we could\u00a0have taken three and that made a huge difference,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14636,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-23829","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"MC Alger Coach, Rulani\u00a0Mokwena\u00a0 has conceded that his side had compromised their CAF\u00a0Champions\u00a0League hopes long before yesterday's 2\u20110 defeat to\u00a0Mamelodi Sundowns","published_date":"2026-02-16 00:00:00","news_description":"MC Alger Coach, Rulani\u00a0Mokwena\u00a0has conceded that his side had compromised their CAF\u00a0Champions\u00a0League hopes long before yesterday's 2\u20110 defeat to\u00a0Mamelodi Sundowns","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26677,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23829\/revisions\/26677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}