Polokwane City head coach Phuti Mohafe has lamented his side’s missed chances in their 3-0 defeat to Mamelodi Sundowns on Sunday.
Rise and Shine had a chance to find a way back into the game when 2-0 down, but Puleng Marema slipped and missed the spot-kick.
Just a few minutes later, Bonginkosi Dlamini missed a clear-cut chance with just Ronwen Williams to beat but put his shot wide, with his coach saying the visitors learnt a hard lesson on Sunday.
“I think it should’ve ended 2-2 if not 3-2,” he said on SuperSport TV.
“But we get an opportunity to score from the spot, we miss. We go another opportunity to score, we go wide [after] one-v-one with the keeper.
“But I think the boy panicked, he is still young, he will learn from the mistake.
“I think the shape that we have lost is the one that determines the score. We’ve lost the shape in the middle. We couldn’t contain them because we wanted to equalize, 1-1.
“But we didn’t realize that we were breaking our shape in the middle. But it’s another lesson learnt and learnt the hard way. We were just not on it after making the sub for Maphangule. I think it’s the one that killed us.
“We learnt the hard way.”
