Marumo Gallants coach Raymond Mdaka has admitted that they had to rest a few players for their Nedbank Cup match against Mamelodi Sundowns due to their involvement in the CAF Confederation Cup.
The Limpopo outfit lost 3-1 to the defending champions on Thursday night. Mdaka praised his team for their performance despite the result, noting that the players had not played for some time.
He pointed out that the Sundowns team had exploited the Gallants’ left-back who was not the usual player due to the rest of the players.
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“But credit to the boys, at some stage you couldn’t see that these are the players who have not played for some time. I think it was a good performance from our boys, it’s just that the result went the other way from the little mistakes we did in the first-half,” he said.
