Chippa United coach Morgan Mammila insists that his side gifted Mamelodi Sundowns two “easy goals” and felt his side deserved to win the match on Tuesday evening.

The Chilli Boys suffered their second consecutive defeat in the DStv Premiership when they went down 2-1 to Sundowns at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria.

The defeat saw Chippa drop down to ninth place on the table with 19 points after 16 matches, while Sundowns extended their lead at the top to 14 points.

“To be honest my boys came to play football and I told them, I don’t know what is parking the bus and I’m not going to learn it now,” Mammila told SuperSport TV.

“We came here to play football and that’s what we do. I thought we gave them two easy goals that they did not deserve, they did not work hard for those goals.

“And we should have scored one, where I don’t know how many passes there in the box because we’re a team that can pass. Yes and of course, there were fouls that we were not getting them.

“But I’m not the man to complain about referees, they had a bad day in the office today, tomorrow it will be me getting those kind of favours.”

Speaking on Ronaldo Maarman, who came on as a second half substitute, Mammila felt he came on at the right time and made a massive impact on the game.

“No, the thing is we had to come and stop the Sundowns train first and once you stop the Sundowns train first, then you can start playing,” he explained.

“Maarman is not a player who can come deeper and mark, we play players according to their strong points, e brought him in at the right time, he came in and did very well.

“And that’s why sometimes substitutes or reserve players are the match winners and we nearly won the match today because of him.”
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