Manqoba Mngqithi Claims That Sundowns Were Unfortunate against Celtic!

Manqoba Mngqithi Claims That Sundowns Were Unfortunate against Celtic! Mamelodi Sundowns dropped more points as they drew 0-0 with Bloemfontein Celtic yesterday.

This is despite creating a host of clear cut chances. Bloemfontein Celtic goalkeeper Jackson Mabokgwane was in fine form.

Substitute goalkeeper Sipho Chaine also played his role in thwarting the potent Sundowns attack.

The Sundowns co-coach believes that his side were unlucky not to score at least 1 goal yesterday.

“This one was a little bit of a tough one because I think we got some opportunities where we could have opened the game up, it’s not going to be easy when they are sitting deep and not giving us space behind the defence,” Mngqithi told SuperSport TV.

“I thought the chances we got in the first-half, Kermit was very unfortunate today I believe he could have easily scored a hat-trick but on the day he was just very unfortunate, we must just accept that.

“But I still believe we were not at our sharpest point, not very sharp and convincing, maybe when we made the substitutions in the second-half and refreshed the team that’s where we started to look better with quicker combinations to try and get behind the defence.

“But all in all I still think it was not a performance one would have expected but what can we do? We can just appreciate that we did not concede again and we have not lost a match, they had some scary moments on counter-attacks and they always trouble us on counter-attacks but I think today we dealt with those situations a little bit better,” he said.

“It’s just not looking good when you’re not scoring in two matches in a row being a team like Sundowns, not taking away the fact that their goalkeeper put in some good saves. Jackson did very well on Kermit in the first-half, Sipho Chaine also did very well second-half. We have to go back and work, hopefully in the big one we’ll be able to get the desired results.” Mngqithi concluded.