Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Miguel Cardoso delivered a frank assessment of his side’s performance, pointing to costly individual errors and missed chances as the key factors behind their defeat.

The Brazilians were eliminated from the Nedbank Cup after falling to a 2-0 defeat to TS Galaxy in the last 16.

Goals from Siphamandla Ngwenya and Junior Zindoga saw the Rockets seucre the win at the Solomon Mahlangu Stadium to advance to the next round of the competition.

Cardoso admitted the team had to chase the game after conceding avoidable goals, stressing the need for honest reflection and accountability as Sundowns evaluate performances and raise their standards moving forward.

“And today it’s unbelievable how you again give this ball inside for the goal and then you suffer a penalty that’s also completely avoidable. Story of the game is exactly that, ourselves losing 2-0 and had to recover from that result.

“And we did create four very good chances, we don’t score, if we had scored one goal it would’ve been completely different. We can only complain ourselves, there’s not much more to say.”

“Look, we need to be objectively clear on the analysis, the goals that we suffered had to do with the line-up. There are individual mistakes that you obviously cannot do, it’s time to go home and rest please and obviously understand who’s able to be on the level of those matches or not.

“Because we cannot make those mistakes, it means everything is wrong, it’s not just evaluation that we need to do, we need to go beyond that but we also need to understand who deserves these opportunities that we’re giving them.”