Mamelodi Sundowns coach Steve Komphela admits the goal they conceded against Maritzburg United was painful.
Themba Zwane's sixth goal of the season gave Sundowns the lead in the first half, but Kwanda Mngonyama's second-half header earned the Team of Choice a point.
"Well I thought it was going to be a very difficult match, we know that very well, it showed, we did not have the space that we normally create and one observed in the discussion with the rest of the team the lack of freshness that we always have," Komphela told SuperSport after the match.
"You dont't know, could it be the long traveling and whatever? But you never come up with excuses in football, you just have to perform.
"Compliment must given to them [Maritzburg] for fighting hard. In our opinion, it's more like two points dropped because we're highly ambitious and desperate to get on with our business.
"The goal we conceded also from set-play, we practice set-plays almost every time and it's just unfortunate and it becomes painful when you have to concede through something that you always work on and preach."
When asked about the missed chances throughout the game, Komphela added, "I thought we had enough chances we created, there's two, Shalulile could have scored two for us today but again you're saying you're in Maritzburg, new coach, new energy, you could see how they were fighting, you'd expect that.
"We're saying, listen we're here, we'll move on, we'll take the point and go but there's lot we needed to improve on," he added.
