Cape Town City head coach Eric Tinkler says his team had the better chances in their goalless draw against Marumo Gallants, but lacked the quality in front of goal to make it count.
It was a second successive goalless draw on the road for tenth-placed City, after their result against Baroka on the weekend.
However Tinkler felt his team could have taken all three points, but weren’t clinical in front of goal when their chances arose.
“I think it’s very difficult for me to sit and criticise the performance,” Tinkler said after the game.
“The first 15 minutes, I thought we were very good. After the first two minutes, we should have scored. After the fourth minute, we should have scored the second.
“So I thought we started extremely well, we had two very, very great chances like I said, we pressed them extremely well in that first 15 minute period, and we got the chances to take the lead.
“But the further the half went on, the more confident they became, the more ball possession they started to have. Our pressing strategy wasn’t working as well as it did from the offset.
“So at halftime, we had to rectify that, and I really thought we done well in the second half, we came at them, again I thought we created the best chances. They had one or two scares where Hugo our goalkeeper had to make a couple of saves, but that was primarily on the counter attack from them.
“And I thought overall, the team that looked better going forward, that looked like scoring was us. I can’t fault the guys for effort, definitely not, today I thought everybody worked their socks off, worked very, very hard.
“But ja, what we lacked was quality in front of goal, and you need quality in front of goal to win football matches, and we didn’t show that quality today.”
