Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Miguel Cardoso has explained why he hauled off Spehlele Mkhulise in the first half of their 4-0 win over Golden Arrows.
Sundowns cruised to victory in a dominant display but they struggled to break down Arrows before Mkhulise made way for a tactical change where Shalulile added another number in attack at the Lucas Masterpieces Moripe Stadium.
His impact was felt as he won a penalty for Lucas Ribeiro Costa to dispatch before the break and then added two goals himself in the second half before Teboho Mokoena added gloss to the finish with a later fourth goal.
“Any moment a player goes out, or the moment the player goes it doesn’t mean that he was bad in the match,” Cardoso said when asked by iDiski Times.
“It’s a tactical approach, and the values of the team should be much stronger than individual values, that’s how I approach things.
“Obviously at half-time, I told Pitso, ‘look Pitso, you came out not because you played bad but because we needed to approach the game in a different way’.
“Because if I knew that the approach of the opponent would’ve been the way it was on the pitch, probably I would’ve started in a different way.”
“So nothing on the work of Pitso, it was a [tactical] decision, so we’re cool on that.”