{"id":7544,"date":"2021-04-02T18:45:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T18:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=7544"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:36:46","slug":"onyango-close-to-perfection-ochaya-wants-reprieve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/onyango-close-to-perfection-ochaya-wants-reprieve","title":{"rendered":"Onyango close to perfection, Ochaya wants reprieve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Last season, Mamelodi Sundowns went through an entire group stage of the Caf Champions League undefeated &#8211; winning four and drawing two games.In doing so, they joined a bad of 10 who have managed the feat. One team &#8211; Tunisia\u2019s Esperance &#8211; has done it on four occasions.Another &#8211; Etoile du Sahel (Tunisia) &#8211; had done it three times. Two teams &#8211; Egyptian against Al Ahly and TP Mazembe of DR Congo &#8211; have done it twice.<\/p>\n<p>None has won all six group stage games yet. Sundowns are on course to alter history having won four in a row to accumulate 12 points and ease into the knockout stage.And one cannot bet against the South African side continuing the streak in Sudan against Al Hilal, who have Cranes\u2019 goalkeeper Salim Jamal, on Match Day five today.They already became the first team to beat giants TP Mazembe home and away. That was the latter\u2019s first home defeat in 11 years. Mazembe had last lost 2-0 to Al Hilal in October, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The only dampener perhaps to their form that has seen Uganda Cranes captain Denis Onyango keep two clean sheets in four games could be rotation.Onyango, coming off Uganda\u2019s disappointing 1-0 loss to Malawi on Monday, is a potential candidate for a rest as Sundowns also seek to retain their Premier Soccer League title.<\/p>\n<p>Such a decision to rest the big hitters would hand Al Hilal, second on three points, a lifeline at the Al Hilal Stadium, in Omdurman. All four teams still have a chance of progressing.Algeria\u2019s CR Belouizdad (three points) host TP Mazembe (two). For the latter, Ugandan left back Joseph Ochaya is unlikely to feature.<\/p>\n<p><b>CAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE<\/b><\/p>\n<p>TODAY\u2019S FIXTURES &#8211; GROUP B3pm: Al Hilal vs. Sundowns9pm: CR Belouizdad vs. TP Mazembe dkyeyune@ug.nationmedia.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Last season, Mamelodi Sundowns went through an entire group stage of the Caf Champions League undefeated &#8211; winning four and drawing two games.In doing so, they joined a bad of 10 who have managed the feat. One team &#8211; Tunisia\u2019s Esperance &#8211; has done it on four occasions.Another &#8211; Etoile du Sahel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":7543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-7544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Onyango close to perfection, Ochaya wants reprieve - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Last season, Mamelodi Sundowns went through an entire group stage of the Caf Champions League undefeated - winning four ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/onyango-close-to-perfection-ochaya-wants-reprieve\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Onyango close to perfection, Ochaya wants reprieve\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last season, Mamelodi Sundowns went through an entire group stage of the Caf Champions League undefeated - 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