We have ourselves to blame – Mamelodi Sundowns coach Miguel Cardoso after TS Galaxy defeat

Mamelodi Sundowns coach Miguel Cardoso has cited individual errors for his outfit defeat to TS Galaxy in the Nedbank Cup on Saturday.

Goals from Siphamandla Ngwenya and Junior Zindonga were enough for TS Galaxy to secure an all-important victory in the round tie, held at the Solomon Mahlangu Stadium.

Cardoso made nine changes to the squad that defeated Orlando Pirates in the South African Premier League clash in mid-week.

Speaking after the match, Cardoso affirmed the defeat has nothing to do with the changes, but rather individual mistakes as the main cause for their loss.

 “The goals that we suffered have nothing to do with the line-up, it’s based on individual mistakes,” Cardoso told SuperSport TV after the game.

“The only thing we can now do is time to go home, rest please and obviously understand who’s able to be on the level of those matches or not.

“Because we cannot make those mistakes, it doesn’t mean that everything is wrong – it’s not. It’s just the evaluation that we need to do.

“We need to go beyond that but we also need to understand who deserves these opportunities that we’re giving them. The most important thing is that in a game like this there is no recover from it.

“You cannot put yourself into 2-0 like we did. I remember last year in the semi-final of this cup, we were winning 1-0 against Chiefs and we allowed them to score…”

“And today is unbelievable, we give the ball [away] for the goal and then we also suffer a penalty which is completely avoidable.

“The story of the game is exactly that, we go down 2-0 and had to recover from that. We created four very good chances, but we don’t score. If we had scored one goal, the energy will be completely different. We only have ourselves to blame.”