Celtic crashed out of the Telkom Knockout at the first hurdle following a 1-0 loss to Sundowns on Saturday evening.
“I thought it was a good match. Sundowns when we played them in Bloemfontein the coach felt the result should not have been. And again without complaining, I haven’t seen the goal [on TV replays] I thought it looked like an offside from where I was standing,” Komphela told SuperSport TV.
“Apart from that Bloemfontein Celtic played very well. Both teams played beautiful football. The only difficult thing for the referees was to understand and accept the fact that both teams are possession based and any possession based team as soon as they lose the ball they are ready to counter press to avoid a counter-attack. And you saw a lot of that, so there were a lot of clashes.
“Not too many teams will sit in the last third of Mamelodi Sundowns. I thought our players did well and with utmost humility we’ll bow out but we’re proud of their performance,” he said.