Sundowns on the brink of highest points tally in Champions League‚ group stages

When the draw for the pool stages was made‚ a few Sundowns fans would have winced at two tough trips to North Africa to face nemesis Wydad Casablanca of Morocco and Algerian side USM Alger and to tricky Petro de Luanda in Angola.

Now they have a chance to improve their highest points total in the group stages to go past the 12 they achieved in 2000 but it was ironically not enough to advance as only the top sides in the groups progressed in those days. But more than that‚ a sound warning to their continental rivals that this squad has mastered the art of playing on the continent.Prior to their 5-0 away demolition of hapless Cote d’Or earlier this campaign‚ Sundowns had won only one of their previous 13 away games in the Champions League and that came at minnows Leones Vegetarianos in Equatorial Guinea.

Winning the group will provide the Brazilians with an ‘easier’ quarter-final outing against the likes of Zamalek or Raja Casablanca‚ rather than tougher Esperance or TP Mazembe.

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