Kaizer Chiefs head coach Nasreddine Nabi says the big loss to SuperSport United 'hurts' after conceding four goals on home soil.
Chiefs suffered their heaviest defeat under coach Nabi thus far after doing down 4-1 to the Tshwane outfit.
To make matters worse, Chiefs finished the game with the ten men after Gaston Sirino was sent off in the second half.
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"It was a very difficult game, and a very painful loss," Nabi told SuperSport after the game.
It's a game that we missed, obviously I'm not going to give excuses but they are excuses because obviously we only had two days for the players to recover and they played an exceptional match. But unfortunately as I said we can't give excuses but they are excuses."
The Tunisian felt the team's performance was affected by the quick turnaround, having played on Saturday while SuperSport played on Wednesday.
"Yes, definitely when the body or the physique is not responding than everything falls apart like a castle of cards and yes, we had conceded on the fourth minute and after 20 minutes we didn't have any reply and as I mentioned when the body is not right than definitely nothing goes well," highlighted the Tunisian.
He continued," Especially when the adversary had a week to recover and we only had two days but it doesn't take away the fact that they played a good game.
"It hurts, it's very painful but as I mentioned when the physique is not well, you can see we gifted them the first three goals it was just give aways.
"It happens; it happens to big teams. We must not judge the team only on today's performance."
