Kaizer Chiefs head coach Nasreddine Nabi has slammed his players for lacking "professionalism" after they squandered a two-goal lead to draw with Royal AM.
Amakhosi went to the break leading Thwihli Thwahla 2-0 thanks to goals by Wandile Duba and Ashley Du Preez.
Chiefs could have been ahead by a bigger margin in the first stanza but missed a host of chances and Ayabulela Maxwele pulled a goal back for the KwaZulu-Natal side early in the second stanza.
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Nabi's charges continued to have big chances in the second stanza but could not convert and ultimately conceded an equaliser in the last minute from Levy Mashiane.
"When you don't respect football, football doesn't respect you. At halftime we said it, after the first 45 minutes we could've scored five or six goals but we missed so many goals and some of them were just a simple touch," Nabi said on SuperSport TV.
"When you give the opponent the chance to stay alive, that's what happens. Sometimes it's lack of professionalism, lack of responsibility, that's the result you get when you don't respect football.
"We had the control of the game from the beginning, we could have scored more goals but what is frustrating is even when you don't score goals you need be solid at the back, solid everywhere. If you don't score you need to defend well, you need to feel that maybe today I'm not gonna score, it's the two, three minutes, I need to sit back and defend the advantage," Nabi said.
"But even that we could not do it. We feel it's a mental thing, we need to work first on the mental before we work on tactical or technical."
Amakhosi have been struggling to keep a clean-sheet but the Tunisian mentor insisted the issue is not about clean-sheets.
"The problem is not the clean-sheet because we believe that we lost two points today, it's lack of professionalism from everyone," the former AS FAR Rabat coach said.
"We could have ended the first-half five or seven up, but we didn't do it. It's not the clean-sheet but when we have the opportunity to score we need score and when we have to do defend, we have to defend," Nabi concluded.