Carling Black Label Cup Sundowns James Richardson

Carling Black Label Cup Mamelodi Sundowns put three past Amazulu on Saturday 12 November. Photos: Backpagepix

Carling Black Label Cup: WATCH All the Sundowns’ goals

Mamelodi Sundowns made plenty of chances and buried three as they won their Carling Black Label Cup semi-final.

Carling Black Label Cup Sundowns James Richardson

Carling Black Label Cup Mamelodi Sundowns put three past Amazulu on Saturday 12 November. Photos: Backpagepix

Mamelodi Sundowns made plenty of chances and buried three as they won their Carling Black Label Cup semi-final.

Amazulu proved no match for the PSL champions.

Watch: Carling Black Label Cup goals of the day

Sundowns have a hard taskmaster

After the Carling Black Label Cup semi-final Rhulani Mokwena bemoaned the wastefulness of his side in front of goal.

“Well, firstly congratulations to Mamelodi Sundowns, congratulations to the entire team, it was a great team performance. Congratulations to the coaches, they worked very hard during the week,” Mokwena said on SuperSport after the game.

“I’m just disappointed we wasted so many chances, I say to the players:

“Football must be played with all five senses and the feeling that I got was the feeling that we were very wasteful.”

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“And in football matches, if you waste so many chances, they can get one moment and they can punish you, you know and they had one or two, with the set-piece they got and very early in the second-half they were in and around our box, they had a couple of half chances. So we’ve got to learn that we’ve got to score the goals and take our chances,” he said.

Carling Black Label Cup coaching moments

Players find themselves in unfamiliar situations in a Carling Black Label Cup match and Cassius Mailula clearly needed his coach before he got the opener.

“Ja, the only thing I said to Cassius, I said ‘What do you need? What support do you need?’ And I made an illustration about what happens in basketball, there’s a term in basketball called ‘next action’,” he said.

“Because you can have one bad action but you shouldn’t allow one bad action to become a second bad action and a third bad action, because then it becomes a bad performance.

“It should be only one isolated bad action and those things happen but he’ll get there, he’ll learn, he’ll improve and he’ll be better.”