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Cape Town City coach Muhsin Ertugral has blamed the team’s latest defeat in the Betway Premiership against Marumo Gallants for losing concentration and panicking in the last 15 minutes.
The Citizens poor run in the top-flight continued unabated after they suffered 1-0 defeat against Gallants at Athlone Stadium on Saturday. Malawian forward Gabadinho Mhango scored the only goal to condemn Cape Town City to their 12th league defeat of the season.
The defeat left Cape Town City winless from their last nine matches.
“In the end you don't know what to say, we all panicked in the last 15 minutes. I think, myself after all those years in this business, we changed out of the concept that we have,” said Ertugral as quoted by SABC Sports.
“Our changes in the end were done out of hope, and then the game went even more down for us, so when you come to the part and you don't score, don't score, they get one counter and they score.
“In the end, what is there that you can hold onto? So you need to experiment and find solutions in that, but the experiment actually didn't bring us anything.’
The Turkish gaffer continued: “In the second half we tried with two strikers, we brought Darwin [Gonzalez] in and it was like a lob-sided game, and we put [Aprocius] Petrus a little bit further up and played with three [defenders], but that didn't work as well.
“So I must recap myself in the end, getting into experiments and turn our luck a bit, but it went even more [in favour of] Gallants, and I can't keep saying 'we don't score, we don't score', but in the end it is like that.
“It's the same story every week – open goals, open taps, and we don't score. Ja, I need to also get my mind a bit clear and we need to help the boys, we're totally devastated in the dressing room at the moment.”
The defeat left Cape Town sitting 13th on the 16 team league table with 23 points from 23 matches. They have won six matches and drawn five.
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