Mamelodi Sundowns maintained their winning start in the Betway Premiership, but head coach Manqoba Mngqithi was critical of Tuesday's win.
Goals from Sphelele Mkhulise and Khuliso Mudau guided the Brazilians to a 2-1 victory over Royal AM.
The KwaZulu-Natal outfit did bag a late goal in the second half while Motebang Sera passed up a glorious chance with the final kick of the game.
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"I think we started the game very well but we were very untidy in the final third, we made a lot of silly mistakes. We could've wrapped up the game in the first-half, we had better opportunities to do that, the final pass, that final decision, a flick pass, casual and that cost us the game," Mngqithi said on SuperSport TV.
"Because we could have easily scored a lot of goals in this match had we taken our chances earlier and that for me is the downside of this game but otherwise the boys played well, it's just that their untidiness made it a little bit difficult because at the end they could have easily scored from that header and then what?
"But I was impressed with a lot of players, I think [Khuliso] Mudau came to the party, Mothobi [Mvala] was strong, Grant [Kekana] was strong, I also believe Divine [Lunga] did very well in the game. The central midfield was strong for the longest part of the game but there were a lot of areas we need to improve.
"We were a little bit stretched, first half we had a lot of long passes, which made the game not to have proper control. But all we wanted was three points and we got the three points," the 53-year-old coach said.
