Marumo Gallants head coach Dan Malesela expressed his unhappiness after their 1-0 defeat at the hands of Cape Town City.
Gallants suffered defeat against Citizens on Saturday evening through Thabo Nodada’s 89th-minute strike which snapped their seven-match unbeaten run across all competition.
This negative result leaves the Limpopo-based side tenth on the log with 29 points in the bag while they are still in contention for the Nedbank Cup where they have been drawn against Baroka in the last-eight.
Malesela believes their poor discipline right at the end of the second half led to them on losing the game on the dying minutes of the second half.
“Look attitude discipline and whole of things that we should have simplified and that we should have stacked on are the ones that killed us today,” Malesela told the media after the game.
“We knew the odds were against us, we knew that we had just played and we knew that we have travelled we knew all these things and we make not make those excuses.
“We had the upper hand in the first half completely and towards the end of the first half that’s when we started to have a bit of an attitude that was not right now we start fighting with the referees we start fighting with the opponents and stuff like that.”
Malesela believes that they were a better side and they didnt deserve to lose it, he also lamented that they deserved at least a draw with their perfomance.
“It’s unfortunate because now we have this long break we should have been in the long break I’m just saying even if we would have drawn the match probably would be even better.
“Because yes if it was the performance of the first half I would say yes maybe a win but based on the first half and second half – maybe a draw would have been fair.
“But we sit and we watch this guy is going to take the shot and we are watching him and we are watching him what do we think will happen.
“That’s poor, that’s poor, poor, poor discipline from our side which something that doesn’t happen but we can not always complain when things don’t go right and you always get disappointed when they don’t go right with a match of this magnitude, this is not a match we should have lost.”
Gallants will now face second-placed Royal AM next in the DStv Premiership on the 6 March 2022.
