Magesi FC coach Clinton Larsen says his players can forget about promotion after throwing what he called the last chance to keep up with the chasing pack in the Motsepe Foundation Championship.
Magesi lost 2-1 to struggling Pretoria Callies at home on Sunday with the coach saying the Limpopo side deserved nothing in the worst performance he has seen since joining the side.
Larsen says now Dikwena tṧa meetse have to focus on not getting dragged into the relegation battle.
“Firstly I don’t think we deserved a point or three today. It was the worse performance I have seen in our team in a long, long time. We just weren’t ourselves today,” he said after the game.
“Both goals conceded, the one was a miss-control on the halfway line they scored it, the second one was a square ball in the middle of the park, mistakes we don’t usually make.
“We need to look really deeper to find out why we didn’t play well today because in the last six or seven games we have been very happy. Even in games we’ve lost we’ve been very happy with the performance but today that was not our team out there.
“We didn’t recognise that team today and like I said we’ll look into it a little bit deeper why we were so flat today. But we definitely didn’t deserve anything out of this game today based on our performance.”
Larsen said that based on the points gap and current form, they should be looking down at the table and not up as the priority for the rest of the season.
“We can forget about promotion now, we can forget. We need five points, you know 30 points you are safe which is a win and two draws from 10 games and that’s all we need to focus on now, making sure we get there because the bottom teams are all fighting for the same thing. So we’ve got to put ourselves in that group now,” he explained.
“We are only on 25 points, yes there are 30 points to play for and we only need five to be safe but the quicker we do it the better for us. Had we won today we would have been safe with 10 games to go. And that would have been a feather in everybody’s cap at the club to have saved relegation with still 10 games left to go.
“So still if we can win one of the next few games we are in the same position where we might have seven, eight or nine games where the team is safe and you can look ahead at how far you can finish in the league.
“But I think dropping points here today, there was still an outside chance of fighting for a top three had we gone on a good run but I think that’s a pipe dream now.”
Magesi host title chasing Polokwane City in the Limpopo derby on Wednesday at the old Peter Mokaba stadium.
