Kaizer Chiefs coach Nasreddine Nabi has apologised following Amakhosi’s defeat to Mamelodi Sundowns in the Carling Knockout Cup.

The Glamour Boys suffer humiliating 4-0 defeat to Sundowns at the FNB Stadium over the weekend.

As a result, Amakhosi have been eliminated from the competition, while Sundowns will face Marumo Gallants in the semi-final at the Mbombela Stadium on November 10.

Nabi says he had to make some changes to try and get back into the game but admits it was not his side’s day.

“I want to apologise to all the fans, congratulations to my colleague, I’m very sorry, it was not our day,” Nabi told SuperSport TV after the game.

“Everywhere, from the back line, in goal, until at the top line, everything we have worked on didn’t work today. We wanted to have a reaction coming to the second-half, we were willing to improve ourselves but the red-card we got at the beginning of the second-half made the game more harder. It was more tougher to come back but that’s how football is.

“We had to change things [at half-time] but Reeve was injured, we conceded the third goal, which made things harder. The red card came at the worst moment where we thought we would come back in the second-half.

“It was a tough lesson today but in football it happens, even the big clubs can lose in such a score-line like we saw Real Madrid. The only thing is we need to lift ourselves up from today, lift our players, encourage them, we need to go back to the drawing board, the training pitch, work harder to make those beautiful fans happy next time.”