Kaizer Chiefs head coach Nasreddine Nabi sent his apologies to their "beautiful" supporters after a 4-0 defeat to Mamelodi Sundowns in the Carling Knockout quarter-finals.
A brace by Iqraam Rayners and other goals from Peter Shalulile and Khuliso Mudau handed Sundowns an emphatic victory.
Chiefs went to the break 3-0 down and ten minutes into the second stanza they were down to ten men after Inacio Miguel was red-carded.
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Nabi admitted that nothing they planned worked for them on the evening.
"I want to apologize to all the fans, congratulations to my colleague, I'm very sorry, it was not our day," Nabi said on SuperSport TV.
"Everywhere, from the back line, in goal, until at the top line, everything we have worked on didn't work today. We wanted to have a reaction coming to the second-half, we were willing to improve ourselves but the red-card we got at the beginning of the second-half made the game more harder. It was more tougher to come back but that's how football is.
"We had to change things [at half-time] but Reeve was injured, we conceded the third goal, which made things harder. The red-card came at the worst moment where we thought we would come back in the second-half.
"It was a tough lesson today but in football it happens, even the big clubs can lose in such a score-line like we saw Real Madrid. The only thing is we need to lift ourselves up from today, lift our players, encourage them, we need to go back to the drawing board, the training pitch, work harder to make those beautiful fans happy next time," the Tunisian said.
The former AS FAR Rabat mentor went on, applauded Sundowns for their win and promised they would have to lift up the players and work harder.
"I'd like to finish by congratulating Mamelodi Sundowns, they had an amazing game, when someone does something good we need to accept but as well we'll like to apologize to our beautiful fans," Nabi said.
"We know they have been waiting for moments of joy for a long time and we believe, we gonna go back and work harder to give them what they are expecting from us," the 59-year-old tactician added.