Marumo Gallants lost 2-0 against USM Alger on Sunday, but the confidence of the DStv Premiership’s last-placed team is going to 'another level' from competing on an equal footing with top clubs in the Caf Confederation Cup, coach Dylan Kerr says.
Zineddine Belaid of USM Alger gets above the defence to score his goal in the Caf Confederation Cup 2022/23 football match against Marumo Gallants at the Omar Hammadi Stadium in Algiers, Algiera on February 26 2023.Marumo Gallants lost 2-0 against USM Alger on Sunday, but the confidence of the DStv Premiership’s last-placed team is going to “another level” from competing on an equal footing with top clubs in the Caf Confederation Cup, coach Dylan Kerr says.
Experience continental campaigners USM top Group B after two wins and a draw. Tournament rookies Gallants are in second place on six points gained from two victories after their first group defeat in Algeria. Kerr said Gallants were in on way disgraced in their first experience of playing in front of a hostile North African crowd at a packed, noisy and intimidating 40,000-seat Stade Nelson Mandela in Baraki, a suburb of Algiers.
One might have expected the bottom team in the PSL to shy from giving their best continentally as they opt to concentrate on domestic woes.Kerr, though, is hoping the confidence gained from strong results in the Confed — Marumo beat Libya's Al Akhdar 4-1 at home and St Eloi Lupopo 2-1 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — will transfer to the league. "[Midfielder Edgar] Manaka said to me, ‘I watched the [replay of the] game at 3am. We were intimidated and frightened.
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