Dikwena managed a 1-0 win at the Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace but Johnson was not best pleased with the tactics that were employed by their adversaries on the night.
“We should have scored a lot of goals. We had a lot of chances but we couldn’t put them away. We tried to play football and they didn’t try to play football. They tried to defend and play on counter,” Johnson told the club's official website.
“Somebody created this methodology in world football and it stuck. It’s ugly. You sit back and defend and wait to beat people on counter attack. That’s not football. It’s like you only have drummers in music. There’s nobody singing or nobody playing the guitar.
"It doesn’t go well because you don’t know who you are playing against. They are not coming at you. That’s not a good advert for football. People can argue with me and says it’s tactics but we have developed a wrong mentality.”
Stars will contest the second-leg of the tie next weekend and Johnson vows that his side will not abandon their philosophy simply to protect their lead.
“We are happy we got the results. We will go to Mozambique and we will attack them. I believe that they are a team, when playing football, they will leave spaces open and we will be able to score. We will fight to maintain the 1-0 lead but to be ultra defensive is not us. I want to go to the next round knowing that we played the Platinum Stars philosophy,” said Johnson.