SuperSport will battle Congolese giants TP Mazembe for continental honours after completing a 4-2 aggregate win over Tunisia's Club Africain in the semi-finals.
Tinkler gave a tactical overview and saluted his charges following their 3-1 victory in Rades on Sunday night.
He said: "I think the first 30 minutes of the first half, I thought we were very good. I thought we showed great composure on the ball. The decision making was very, very good. We knew they would come and play a 4-3-3 formation, we just weren't too sure whether they would play with three defensive midfielders or two defensive and one attacking in [Oussama] Daragi, whether he would start or not. I think the fact they played with defensive midfielders actually played to our advantage. That meant they would be sitting back and looking to only really hurt us on the counter, and I thought we dealt with them very well in the first 30 minutes.
"We created chances, we got the lead and immediately after scoring we changed the way we played. I think the players to a degree started to panic a little bit. We started just knocking long balls and that was playing straight into their hands. I felt the last 15 mins of the first half they started coming at us and creating opportunities, and we had to rectify that obviously at half-time.
"I thought the response from the players in the second half was exceptional. We started showing the same intensity and composure. We got the lead with the second goal. It was disappointing how we conceded the penalty. We got caught on the counter which we always knew would be the only real weapon they would have against us.
"We landed up changing the formation going with three at the back, playing with a 3-5-2 and were now looking to break on the counter against them. We ended up getting the third and possibly could have got more.
"So I'm extremely proud of the performance of the team. It's been a long run to get where we are and we thoroughly deserve to be in that final," concluded the former Bafana Bafana midfielder, who also guided Orlando Pirates to the final of the second-tier event in 2015.