New Mamelodi Sundowns attacker Lebo Mothiba signed for the membership in March 2025. Why has he not but made the matchday squad?

WHY LEBO MOTHIBA IS NOT PLAYING

Chatting with the media after final Saturday’s 2-0 win over Cape City Metropolis, Sundowns coach Miguel Cardoso defined that the 29-year-old has been out of motion for fairly a while.

“Mothiba is a high-quality participant who, sadly, comes from a protracted interval of absence and non-competition. [He comes] from an enormous damage and a protracted interval of restoration.

“We’re affected person, and he’s additionally affected person,” the Sundowns mentor stated through FARPost. “He’s additionally anxious, and we’re additionally anxious, however we all know what we’ve got to do and we’re going to do it proper, in order that he can be part of us sooner or later.

“It’s a participant that we have to deal with like a crystal, very rigorously. However we’re keen to do it and quite a bit. He is a superb particular person and human being. We’re completely satisfied to have him amongst us. However we have to give him all of the situations in order that he can get better and assist us sooner or later.

“However I nonetheless have expectations that he can play for us earlier than the top of the championship. So that you can perceive, yesterday [Friday], the gamers that weren’t with us made a joint coaching session with the Diski Problem group, and he performed quarter-hour in that match, free, with out conditioning,” the Sundowns tactician concluded.

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