Miguel Cardoso has reflected on Mamelodi Sundowns’ defeat to TS Galaxy in their final Betway Premiership outing of the season.

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The Brazilians concluded their Betway Premiership campaign on a disappointing note after suffering a 3-2 defeat to TS Galaxy in Nelspruit.

Sundowns fell to defeat despite a brace from Brayan León, as goals from Victor Letsoalo, Sedwyn George and Mpho Mvelase secured victory for TS Galaxy.

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Despite the defeat, Sundowns remain top of the Betway Premiership standings with 68 points from 30 matches.

“Absolutely, and I remember the first action is a ball from Arthur him against the goalkeeper, very easy to score goals to us today. Quite difficult in controlling that space on the back, but I think the team had a good reaction we finished the first half in a normal position. 45 minutes we scored a goal,” Cardoso told SuperSport after the game.

“We made some corrections at halftime that I think were needed, but you cannot start the second half and suffer a goal from not even 30 seconds on the match, really. But I think there’s a lesson to take out from this matches that as much as people may say but I don’t think anyone has tried to play seven matches in 21 days.

“We played the last four matches always on the third day, I would like anyone today to try to do something so it’s very easy for me to now criticise my players because they were tired, was not quick and fluid as usually but I will not do it.

“I think the calendar beat us, most of all the calendar beat us and we need to recover as much as possible because we’re going to play a Champions League final in four days and as you know our opponent is already resting is on the third day of rest so we need to be very wise on what to speak now and also put our thoughts on what we have ahead.”