Kaizer Chiefs head coach Arthur Zwane bemoaned the side's finishing against ten-man AmaZulu on Sunday.
Chiefs went behind early in the game after Gabadinho Mhango found the back of the net for Usuthu, but Keagan Dolly eventually found the equaliser for Amakhosi around the hour-mark.
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The Chiefs tactician felt his side had plenty of chances to get the first-leg win at the FNB Stadium.
"Ja look if you don't take your chances and you'll end up chasing the game like we've been chasing the game," Zwane told SuperSport TV.
"And you're bound to make mistakes and you end up conceding the second goal and as I said, you could see the structure but they also had a good game plan in making sure that they kill time.
"They keep the ball, for first 20 minutes, we said to the boys let's force them to make mistakes but where, outside you know. Let's force them to play the ball out wide, the front three, don't go too early," he said.
"Allow them to play the ball first, let's be compact with three midfielders and as soon as they play the ball outside, then let's set those pressing traps there.
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"Then the guys, for the first 20 minutes we were too scattered and that's how we even ended up conceding the goal. But look I cannot falter the effort of the boys," he went on.
"We know we could have done better, we created a number of chances today, we could have easily scored four, five goals, even six, it wasn't to be in terms of scoring goals.
"But look we just made it difficult for ourselves, the fact that we conceded, now we're chasing the game, we're going to Durban to make sure we have to win at least and not concede a goal. But we have to score goals there in Durban."
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