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00:00so we're underway on match day four in group b that's rajah playing from left to right all in
00:10green take on mamalodi sundowns of south africa playing from right to left in the all-white
00:18street
00:29contrasting campaigns as said
00:33it's a divine lunga the zimbabwean
00:38marina's first touch for him strike a goal from distance
00:41from the 29 year old
00:52perhaps it's a sign of what he's trying to do to impress the rajah fans because as said the
00:57players have been under pressure the coach has gone as a result even the club president is
01:04coming under pressure given the way in which the team has started this campaign
01:08swung in at an early chance when bikur couldn't take it the equatorial guinea international
01:15rajah fans would have felt it was their time to shine
01:19instead as already said this scene has gone far from the perfectly for them
01:24is showing some of that frustration
01:40interesting to see how he celebrates if this were to go in
01:45so who do you with the free kick straight into the wall and a fatty hits it
01:49and then a fatty cannot hit the target
01:52and now sundowns can relieve some of the pressure in the back
01:57libero charging forward chance here for matthews and matthews
02:03he just doesn't get anything behind it in the end but
02:10looking for the back stick and headed away we'll come to
02:12causa he just doesn't get anything on it i think he completely missed time that he uh
02:18these three league games not even in the squad
02:24and really coming back into that squad after the coach's departure picora
02:32striker goal not fully cleared and then just snatched up it really took it far too early
02:39suit
02:42they have yet to force ronwin williams into a safe
02:50and there he is the 32 year old
02:53doing 100 appearances for the clubs is joining three years ago now swung in and
03:01out
03:03very very easy save in the end for as neeti
03:09and a fatty rides one challenge from lunga
03:13against his cross he just switches direction of play ribeiro to obas
03:19and obas is under pressure catches and that's a straight red car for obas
03:27obas well drama at the end of this first period and the jury not the first player to roll around
03:34and around from roger casablanca and obas simply cannot believe it and it was a straight red card
03:42and he simply is standing there because the 29 year old
03:47is absolutely baffled then he lost possession obas he went in caught the heels as you can clearly
03:56caught the heels as you can clearly see of najari
04:01overplayed his hand
04:05and it's certainly gonna hurt
04:16benamar into the middle good ball in header a goal
04:19najari forcing the diving save from ronwen williams
04:27can they find the opening goal in first half stoppage time surely they can here
04:32and roger casablanca do precisely that and it comes from the unlikely figure of center
04:38back benaisa benamar you had the freedom of casablanca to fire roger into a one goal lead
04:47their second goal in the group stages in their fourth game and finally some cheer
04:54for their beleaguered supporters and there'll be a lot of questions at the back from sundowns
05:00about how exactly that happened because nmr was one of three players standing over the ball with
05:06the opportunity to put it in the back of the net no offside decision that's what they were waiting
05:10for his first touch killed it his second touch almost took it away
05:18and as that was coolly into the bottom corner
05:20it just almost got stuck under his feet didn't it for benamar
05:29but he sent williams the wrong way
05:34look how he celebrates as well benaisa benamar
05:41so
05:52and it certainly was a mixed first half
05:56in terms of having a little bit of everything a red card goals scuffle between players
06:03uh
06:07nervous energy in the only 5-10 minutes
06:13and a fatty to the byline he goes into the middle it goes
06:15his chance here for nfc saved well by williams
06:20he's
06:26demonstrating with himself
06:31little boy on the corner from bullock suit into the middle it goes
06:37blue green still they come forward raja well that's a nice ball around the corner
06:42into the mid just over the head of najari and then the chance again and you can't keep it
06:50you can clearly see the five men across the back for sundowns as that shot is flashed in
06:55bullock suit with the drive that stands his ground holds on to the ball
07:00embracing the dial who founds mcquena mcquena from distance
07:04hit the target missed the second round can he deliver and get sundowns back into it
07:14he can't because it's tame again
07:18doesn't feel he's necessarily got the decisions for the referee
07:24lovely ball from blue green excellent save from williams that was really good football from raja
07:29going to be their best move of the matches blue green let's fly again
07:35i'm gonna push it
07:37oh that's late on modiba who's just come on and what's the referee done well mcquena's having a
07:44word absolutely having a word there is not going to be a friendly after match drink between these
07:52sets of players maro and zilla it was who is going in hard on medina who had just come on
08:00the referee's got his yellow card he's surely going to be brandishing it in the direction of
08:05maro and zilla one when williams has come all the way to have a word with the referee as well
08:12so zilla that's a pretty bad challenge and madiba wrote it pretty well
08:42so
08:52a lot of emotion out on the pitch i think would be a diplomatic way perhaps of putting it
09:02but a chance here for raja to settle this encounter straight into the
09:05wall it goes from the substitute bottom and then round the back they go
09:12zahooni to marmuri he gets his header very very wrong
09:20without launches it long up towards rainers who's plowed a lonely faro
09:26forward but he's gone in too far now
09:28well that was well struck
09:42and then they just hit it long and up towards launch and launches it behind and launch can
09:46level it up here for sundowns in the final stages but he cannot because he just could
09:52not get anything on this strike and they enter bodice hand from very very close range
09:58they're gonna have another red card
10:02and this has been fairly extraordinary and i think it's going to be madara for that challenge
10:06on zahooni and i think the frustrations and i think zahooni
10:15has quite possibly won that psychological battle and it lofts it in
10:23shallowly lay on the turn blocked by raja comes up the corner again and the final whistle has
10:29gone and raja celebrate the much needed victory and sundowns have suffered their first defeat
10:37of the campaign it has not been a pretty game by any stretch of the imagination but they will not
10:42matter to the raja players who have lifted themselves off the bottom of the group group
10:50b with their first victory at the fourth time of asking