Miguel Cardoso on Mamelodi Sundowns' 2-0 loss to TS Galaxy in the Nedbank Cup: We have ourselves to blame and no one else for this defeat

Miguel Cardoso cites individual errors as the reason they lost 2-0 to TS Galaxy to bow out of the Nedbank Cup yesterday.

Cardoso said that he made nine changes to his starting line up from the team which team Orlando Pirates in midweek was not the cause of the defeat but individual mistakes were the root of their loss.

Siphamandla Ngwenya and Junior Zindonga scored the goals for TS Galaxy at a packed Solomon Mahlangu Stadium.

“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.”