Marumo Gallants caretaker coach Raymond Mdaka has bemoaned a “bad game” during their 4-0 capitulation against a visiting Mamelodi Sundowns in Polokwane on Sunday.
“But we gave away a lot of balls and were punished from those balls that we lost and it demoralised the whole team.
“Towards the end of the game, honestly, we even lost our structure, but this is something we have to learn from and see how best can we deal with it going forward.” Gallants tried to play a low defensive block against the free-scoring star-studded Sundowns until their defences fell apart late in the match, as articulated by Mdaka’s counterpart Manqoba Mngqithi.
“When we scored the first goal then we knew that maybe they might start to get desperate and open up a little bit and indeed that is what happened. “In the second half they came with a high press and initially we struggled with our build-up schemes up until we used [left-footed centre-back] Mosa Lebusa in a more double-wide with [left-back] Divine Lunga and [left winger] Neo Maema in that space. Then they struggled to deal with the overload, which opened them up a little bit and that is why on the left we opened bigger holes and that is where probably most of our goals came from,” said Mngqithi.
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