Mamelodi Sundowns coach Rulani Mokwena says his side will “go again” and try to go undefeated in the new season in the DStv Premiership.

The Brazilians 53-game unbeaten run in the DStv Premiership came to an end after conceding a 1-0 defeat to Cape Town City at Loftus Stadium over the weekend.

Sundowns finished the 2023–24 season going unbeaten in 29 games out of 30, having won 22, drew seven and only conceded one loss.

Mokwena says it was a “bitter-sweet” to be crowned champions and going unbeaten the entire season until the final match day when they conceded their first defeat to Eric Tinkler’s Cape Town City side.

“Of course, we would have loved to do it a different way. But it’s bitter-sweet, you know I always say man plan but God decides and, in the end, if you want to do it a certain way, then God decides that this is not meant to be that way,” Mokwena told SuperSport TV after the game.

“You got to accept you know, and the first thing you got to do is to congratulate Cape Town City for winning the match. Congratulations to Eric (Tinkler) and the entire football club of Cape Town City. But it’s also not to forget that we are the champions, seven time in a row.

“The most iconic trophy and championship for this football club, it will go down in history and thank you to the yellow nation for coming through to witness this. The support was incredible.

“They are so important, we do everything for them, we play for them, we suffer for them, we sacrifice and we happy that we delivered the most iconic trophy in the history of this club so as I said even in my pre-match.

“We would’ve loved to go undefeated but it’s never been done before and that shows how difficult it is and for us to even go 29 games its incredible and I’m so proud of these players. We will go again next season and try again,” he concluded.

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