Kaizer Chiefs head coach Nasreddine Nabi has apologised to the supporters following the 4-0 defeat at the hands of Mamelodi Sundowns.
The Soweto giants were knocked out of the Carling Knockout after being thrashed by their rivals at FNB Stadium.
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The Amakhosi started off his post-match thoughts by apologising to the supporters and also made the comparison with Real Madrid, who lost 4-0 to rivals FC Barcelona last weekend.
"I want to apologise to all the fans, congratulations to my colleague, I'm very sorry, it was not our day," Nabi told SuperSport after the game.
"Everywhere, from the back line, in goal, until at the top line, everything we have worked on didn't work today. We wanted to have a reaction coming to the second-half, we were willing to improve ourselves but the red-card we got at the beginning of the second-half made the game more harder. It was more tougher to come back but that's how football is.
"We had to change things [at half-time] but Reeve was injured, we conceded the third goal, which made things harder. The red card came at the worst moment where we thought we would come back in the second-half.
"It was a tough lesson today but in football it happens, even the big clubs can lose in such a score-line like we saw Real Madrid. The only thing is we need to lift ourselves up from today, lift our players, encourage them, we need to go back to the drawing board, the training pitch, work harder to make those beautiful fans happy next time."
