September explains why United struggled against Monyane

Chippa United co-coach Thabo September has explained why they could not deal with threats that eventually led the opener by Tshegofatso Mabasa from Thabiso Monyane's side.

Pirates had big spaces on their right side of attack for the better part of the first stanza and after a couple of threats, Mabasa eventually broke the deadlock after a cut-back by Monyane before quickly making 2-0 from the penalty spot.

"I think we made a mistake following a player, it's something we still need to work on at training, we follow the player inside and they play it through," September explained on SuperSport.

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"We managed them, we knew we don't have the legs after such a game on the weekend to maintain that level of intensity, so we needed to just control the game without the ball, give them the spaces that we want to give them.

"But Monyane on the right side he found the right moments to go up and we couldn't deal with those balls. There were signs or warnings in the beginning of the game and ja we were punished," he said.

The former SuperSport United defender also conceded that left-back Azola Ntsabo had not played for a long time and that by the time they tried to fix their mistake at half-time they were already 2-0 down.

"We tried (to solve it), it's football, when you don't fix things and you get the warnings, at the end of the day you get punished. Azola has not played in a long time, we had (Siphelele) Luthuli in front of him but in the second-half," September went on.

"You might tell me why did you resolve it in the second-half because in the second-half he was not going up because they had two but when he was up we managed him well, so it's not a matter of we couldn't resolve it but we