Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Rulani Mokwena has revealed what he told Cassius Mailula on the touchline after missing a chance.
Sundowns defeated Usuthu 3-0 to secure their spot in the Carling Black Label Cup final on Saturday, with Mailula, Haashim Domingo and Bradley Ralani getting on the scoresheet.
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"Well, firstly congratulations to Mamelodi Sundowns, congratulations to the entire team, it was a great team performance. Congratulations to the coaches, they worked very hard during the week," Mokwena said on SuperSport after the game.
"I'm just disappointed we wasted so many chances, I say to the players football must be played with all five senses and the feeling that I got was the feeling that we were very wasteful.
"And in football matches, if you waste so many chances, they can get one moment and they can punish you, you know and they had one or two, with the set-piece they got and very early in the second-half they were in and around our box, they had a couple of half chances. So we've got to learn that we've got to score the goals and take our chances," he said.
In the early stages of the game, Mokwena hauled Mailula to the touchline to have a brief chat with him.
"Ja, the only thing I said to Cassius, I said 'What do you need? What support do you need?' And I made an illustration about what happens in basketball, there's a term in basketball called 'next action'," he said.
"Because you can have one bad action but you shouldn't allow one bad action to become a second bad action and a third bad action, because then it becomes a bad performance.
"It should be only one isolated bad action and those things happen but he'll get there, he'll learn, he'll improve and he'll be better."
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