Moroka Swallows head coach Steve Komphela says his charges put up a good fight against Kaizer Chiefs, but lamented the missed chances.
The sides went to the halftime break goalless but the Glamour Boys found the winner ten minutes before time thanks to Christian Saile in a 1-0 victory.
Komphela says he feels they could have scored at least two goals from big chances but they could not take them.
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"The only thing you celebrate the product is when at the back of a defeat your counterpart celebrates the victory," Komphela told SuperSport TV.
"And then you look at it and say okay they appreciate the effort we put against them. We put on a hell of a good fight.
"I thought we could have gone to the dressing room having scored. There's a ball from Gabadinho Mhango the free-kick one that hit the 90 degrees," he said.
"There's a ball that (Lindokuhle) Mtshali had, listen you have a chocolate in your hand, you have to take a bite and you miss it. For the second time, chocolate, take it, we didn't take it.
"Those are chances you count. Second-half obviously got tighter and tighter but I thought the first 30 minutes of the game we couldn't put our feet on the ground, we couldn't settle down," he continued.
"It took us a bit longer. It was from the press mode we chose. But as soon as we changed from one mode to the other, we started taking direction.
"Because in defence we wanted to dictate how they must play. They are a possession based team, they want to build from the back, so you have to force them to do what they don't like, force them to go long, which they did."
The former Amakhosi coach went on and said it was unfortunate they lost from a defensive error after Phillips tried to play out from the back and was dispossessed, where the Glamour Boys went on a counter-attack and scored through Saile.
"But unfortunately in the second-half we lose to a mistake we could have done better but listen you gotta budget for these," Komphela said.
"If you're a man working with vegetables, you've got to smell veggies. If you're a man working in a meat market, you've got smell meat.
"The culmination of the goal we conceded is how we're used to playing, don't faulter anyone. The only thing that I think I have the responsibility to do is to go and tell Keenan Phillips: 'Listen, you have to live in the here and now. Don't forget what happened, it's gone, it's in the past but the greatest growth happens in discomfort'," he carried on.
"I don't think he will commit the same error again," he added.
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