TS Galaxy head coach Adnan Beganovic admits the FIFA International break came at the perfect time for the club to overcome the 6-0 thrashing by Orlando Pirates.
Galaxy takes on Motsepe Foundation Championship side Milford for a place in the Nedbank Cup final at the back of demoralising defeat to Pirates as they were down to 10-men inside the opening minute in Mbombela Stadium last week.
But their coach, Beganovic, says a lot was done, tactically, physically and mentally to the squad during the break to revive their minds, bodies and spirits to take on the domestic cup competition and finish the season in the positive fashion it started.
“It’s very important, the FIFA break helped us a lot [to get over the result], it was the best time for us after that tough game, it was difficult to explain how we could concede all those goals and how we struggled in that game,” Beganovic said.
“I think it’s one time in two years something like this happened, and you know we tried to rest and recover our players, have individual’s meetings, analyse everything that happened in that game – and immediately we want to move on and place attention on recovery on physical and mental recovery.
“We’ll be ready for the rest of the games we have left, all the players accept the positive side, we spoke and found reason why something like that happen – and the main point is not to allow something like that to happen again as a professional club, with professional players.
“We can’t allow anyone to show a huge difference between two teams, we don’t deserve that as players here have quality, which we have shown many times against the strongest teams in the country, like Mamelodi Sundowns.
“We have played well against Pirates before but this time everything went against us, we had so many unlucky moments, against us – and then you know you can’t stop this, when games start like that you start to go defensive and try not to lose more players. We have quality, we can finish this season how we started, which was positive.”
The other semi-final sees Casric Stars face off against Durban City on Saturday at 15h00.
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