Cape Town City coach Eric Tinkler says his side will work on reducing individual error and focus on turning their chances into goals following their exit from the MTN8.

The Citizens were eliminated from the top eight competition after suffering a 2-1 defeat to Kaizer Chiefs at Athlone Stadium on Sunday.

Marc Van Heerden opened the scoring for City in the 23rd minute before Ashley Du Preez levelled matters after 36 minutes but a stoppage time winner from Edson Castillo saw Amakhosi progress to the semi-finals.

Despite the defeat, Tinkler says he is sticking to his guns and keeping the same formations as they look to build on this result.

“I thought entertaining game for the fans, both teams really end to end, both teams looking to get positive, looking to go forward, create chances and score goals,” Tinkler told SuperSport TV after the game.

“But unfortunately we ended up on the losing end. Chances at the death to try get the equaliser. but it didn’t happen.

“The formation that we use, the way we play we looked to play on the front foot constantly and sometimes it hurts you. Their goal we get caught ball in behind, purely long balls if you look into it and got caught on a couple of occasions.

“But we’re not gonna change the way we play, we just gotta make better decisions in defence, to try and avert those goals from happening, we gotta be a lot better n terms of our finishing.

“It’s easy after a loss to start thinking you’re doing things wrong but I don’t, i think we’re doing the right things and it’s just about improving those small areas, especially in the last third, turning chances into goals and if we can (reduce) individual errors, then obviously we’ll win more games than what we’ll lose,” he concluded.

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