Kaizer Chiefs head coach referred to their 1-0 defeat against Golden Arrows in the Betway Premiership as "absolutely deceiving".
Chiefs created plenty of chances but were clinical in front of goal and went down to a goal by Gladwin Shitolo in the second stanza.
The Soweto giants have now dropped to sixth spot and the coach insists there was enough chances to get a result.
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"It's always the same issue, when you don't convert your opportunities to score you're keeping the opponent alive and when you don't score, he puts in his opportunities, then you have to run after the score," Nabi said on SuperSport.
"Today it's absolutely a deceiving result and we're very aware that we didn't do well, maybe not a lot but there was enough opportunities to look for something, probably the easiest than what the opponent got.
"It's been a hard game, the third in seven days, with a couple of injuries, it was not easy, without key players. It's been very tough, it's true that it is a deceiving result but we cannot put everything we have in jeopardy since the beginning of the season."
The Tunisian coach also explained why he took off Tebogo Potsane and Njabulo Blom at half-time, as he brought on Ranga Chivaviro and Reeve Frosler.
"At half-time we had two players already booked, we had to take them out because a little thing it's a red-card after, we had to manage that," Nabi said.
"But that doesn't completely explain the deceiving result of today," the former AS FAR Rabat coach added.