Mamlodi Sundowns wins the open to go to the top of group F at the Club World Cup

The Mamlodi Sundowns South African champions won their opening game at the Club World Championships Tuesday while the striker Iqraam Rayners scored the only goal in a 1-0 victory over the Olsan HD of South Korea.

The result put in the standings the second group F African Champions League this month after Borussia Dortmund was kept 0-0 from Fluminense at the beginning of the day.

It was also a first victory for an African team at the new 32 -team tournament in the United States after Ahly designed their open while the Esperance of Tunisia lost in Flamengo on Monday.

Rayners’ goal came nine minutes before the interval at the Inter & Co stadium in a match that was delayed by just over an hour due to the threat of lightning in the central florida.

The teams had risen to the field to start the game before the French referee Clement Turpin ordered them to changes as a precaution.

Rayners had two other strikes of the first half excluded after the VAR checks: one for the handball and the other inches in offside.

The effort that counted was a well -worked effort with the Brazilian director of Sunday Lucas Ribeiro who slipped a passage through the Ulsan defense for the attacker who hit the net.