AmaZulu head coach Pablo Franco Martin has criticised Orlando Pirates for celebrating a goal they scored against "nine men".
Usuthu went down 1-0 to Pirates in the DStv Premiership, after Tshegofatso Mabasa scored with 15 minutes remaining.
The KwaZulu-Natal side played with ten men from the 21st minute after Abbubaker Mobara was shown a straight red card.
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"Today I'm not going to be angry, I'm going to laugh because it's a never ending story. But it's a great feeling to compete against this team in this amazing scenario," Martin told SuperSport TV.
"Seeing how they are celebrating like they have won the World Cup, wasting time and only scoring when they were playing against nine men, when one player is on the ground you're playing with one man up, not kicking the ball out but that also happened in the cup game. Even when we took the ball out because one of the players was on the ground, they took the ball from our goal-kick and they pressed from there.
"I think we started the game in an amazing way, we hammered them, we had chances to score, we hit the post, we played great football but again one unbelievable action, which changed the whole game and harmed us a lot," the Spanish coach went on.
"But from there surprisingly we're controlling them very well, we got many chances, even in the second-half, until against nine (men), they took the advantage and they scored. We tried until the end but this is what we can do when we're playing against everything and everyone all day."
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