Williams concedes his error was unfortunate but lauds Downs' effort
'At this level, if you make mistakes, they punish you and we learnt the hard way today. I think all of their goals were probably mistakes, errors from us, and at this level you get punished. Where we come from, we get away with it. This is a good lesson; we shouldn't be disappointed.'
Sundowns would be punished again when Mokoena was cheaply muscled out of possession before Serhou Guirassy put the Germans ahead in the 34th minute. Jobe Bellingham benefited from another suspect goalkeeping effort from Williams to score Dortmund's third goal on the stroke of halftime.
The Sundowns keeper spilt the ball in front of Bellingham, who made no mistake on the volley. Sundowns would dignify the scoreline by scoring through Iqraam Rayners and Lebo Mothiba later on. Williams insisted the Brazilians proved that they can compete at the highest level, adding the gap wasn't 'that big' between them and Europe's elite teams like Dortmund.
'We showed that we can compete. Yes, obviously they [Dortmund] are physically bigger but it's all about your mind ... if your mentality is right, you can go out there and compete against the best and that's what we showed today,'' the Sundowns shot-stopper stated.
'I am just proud of the boys for the effort, the desire and the fight. The gap isn't that big and I think we proved that once again today.'
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