Cape Town City head coach Eric Tinkler reveals the team practiced taking penalties for three days straight.
The Citizens missed out on a second MTN8 title after losing to Mamelodi Sundowns on penalties after it ended 1-1 after extra-time.
The Citizens managed to score twice in the shoot-out that went to sudden, as the Brazilians goalkeeper Denis Onyango saved all their other spot-kicks.
"I feel for the boys you know, tough to lose in the penalty shoot-outs, it's always Russian roulette," Tinkler told SuperSport after the game.
"I promise you, you can train all you want, we practiced three days solid after training, when you put them in this situation, people melt. Unfortunately, the pressure seems to be big and you can't replicate that in a training session.
"But congratulations, exceptional team, difficult team to break down, I thought we defended well, so many clever players in the team, they still found solutions, they still created opportunities.
"We found it difficult to contain them you know but with the quality they have, you make a mistake, you lose the ball in the wrong areas you get punished for that and that's how they took the lead.
"But I thought the boys responded well, we just needed to be a little bit patient on the ball, we needed not to panic, I thought there were periods where we started to panic, gave the ball away too cheaply, because we were growing a bit frustrated.
"And I think we changed the formation and started to control the match a lot better, got ourselves back into the game and potentially with one or two situations we could have gone on and won it," he went on.
"But it all changed when [Idumba] Fasik got the red-card, now it was try to hang on as long as we could, to try and take it to penalties and hopefully win it there but it didn't work out for us.
"We felt we were 1-0 down, we were only pressing with Fagrie in the first half, so we needed to press a little bit higher, at the same time, their movements, they were hurting us in between the centre-back and full-back.
"[Themba] Zwane was a constant threat every time he found the half spaces, so I thought it was important to change to a back-three, which what we did. We brought Terrence [Mashego] on and I thought that made quite a big difference immediately.
"We started to contain them a little better, we started to pick up the balls a lot quicker and we started to find each other with a lot more ease, which led to us getting the equaliser, the changes made an immediate impact," he added.
Check out Sundowns' MTN8 celebrations after the game:
