Cape Town City head coach Eric Tinkler says his team are still doing the right things, but need to reduce the amount of individual errors.
City broke the deadlock on 23 minutes courtesy of a header by Marc van Heerden but Chiefs got back into the game ten minutes before the interval through Ashley Du Preez.
With end to end attacks, Edson Castillo snatched the winner for Amakhosi in added time and the Citizens were unlucky not to find the back of the net after late substitute Jo Paciencia was denied by the crossbar.
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"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.
"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," he said.
Chiefs had plenty of chances on transitions given a high line played by the Citizens but Tinkler says they won't change the way they play.
"But we're not gonna change the way we play, we just got to make better decisions in defence, to try and avert those goals from happening, we got to be a lot better in terms of our finishing," he said.
"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."
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