AmaZulu coach Benni McCarthy couldn’t hide his frustration after seeing his team drop points for a second straight PSL game.
Usuthu played the final half-hour with a man advantage but struggled to turn their dominance into goals before Samkelo Mgwazela was also sent off in the final five minutes against Kaizer Chiefs.
“Very frustrating and there’s not really much you can do. The fact you don’t lose the game and you don’t go home having an ‘L’, but come on this is becoming ridiculous,” McCarthy told SuperSport after the game.
“I said in the pre-match about respecting the spaces which we do very well, we manage the game But we’ve got absolutely nothing. We don’t look like a team that’s gonna create and win the game because we also as passive and then we concede the softest goals and now you chasing the game.
“And still they go one man down and the players are playing like they are 3-4 up. It’s becoming very frustrating for me. But I commend the team. Two games in a row you come from behind. There’s not much I can do because you do what you do on the training ground and then you expect okay the players now are going to show something and step up. But then you get these dismal performances.
“Stellenbosch the same, you throw away three points. Today Chiefs, because it was our game to lose and then you go a man up, and we looked like we were nowhere and create absolutely nothing. Fortunately enough we ended up getting a goal so yeah you take a point and what more can you do.
“You just have to keep working and working and hopefully the club decides that okay maybe here the team can do with a bit of a reshuffle because we need new faces in the team. Because this way we’re gonna keep having these performances these kind of games and we gona keep picking up one point, one point one point and ja then we gonna become the new Swallows.
“Jules, honestly, you know this is not my style but I genuinely don’t have energy because it’s two games on the road and people look at it and say I don’t understand why he’s behaving the way he does because you don’t end up losing the game but it’s people that don’t understand football. If you understand football and you work with these guys everyday and then you see what they give you on matchday then how can I be satisfied with getting a point from games that we should be winning.
“You know come end of the season then you start thinking oh the Stellenbosch, oh the Chiefs game, oh this game, that game and once it’s gone it’s gone. So I’m at the moment where this is the opportunity to take this because we might not know what will happen in the second round. We go into CAF and God help us come that time if this is the dismal performance we give now and that’s without playing in CAF competitions where you have travel. So ja, God help us when it comes to next season, in the new year.”