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Matthews says they "underestimated" Stars, who are actually from Tshwane in Mamelodi, by fielding a weakened team and that the defeat left them "upset and embarrassed".
"Hats off to them, they came away from home to the team that's coming second in the PSL, they showed tremendous spirit and fight, they brought a little band of supporters," Matthews said on Marawa Sports Worldwide.
"They came in their two quantum bakkies and they showed they wanted the game more than my boys who came in a luxury 60-seater bus, so you know as much as it is disappointing, definitely the worst result in the history of the football club.
"Our lowest moment to lose to a team in a third tier, it's not something everybody in the club is proud about, we're all pretty upset and in a small way embarrassed," he said.
"But again I don't wanna take away what they brought to the party, they brought an element of surprise to us, we underestimated them. We took a calculated gamble of fielding a weaker team and giving some of the fringe players a chance to show what they can do."
Matthews, however, consoled himself with the fact that his side is not the first club to lose to a lower league side in the Nedbank Cup, as even big teams such as Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates have suffered such upsets over the years.
"So we have to take that on the chin, we're not the first team to lose in the Nedbank Cup in a David and Goliath fashion, over the years I can recall Vaal University of Technology knocking out Golden Arrows," he continued.
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"I can recall Acornbush (United) knocking out Cape Town City, Baroka knocking out (Kaizer) Chiefs which was a spring board for them to become a bigger football club some ten, 11 years ago."I remember FET Maluti College putting four past Orlando Pirates in the Nedbank Cup," he stated.
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