Ertugral says sorry to fans

MUHSIN Ertugral was embarrassed by the football Orlando Pirates produced in their flat 0-0 Premier Soccer League draw against Cape Town City at Orlando Stadium on Tuesday‚ and apologised to the Bucs fans for it.The Pirates coach admitted most of his decisions did not work out as Bucs dropped their first two points of the season‚ with City unlucky not to win having missed a string of chances."I’m personally disappointed about the type of football we dished out. It didn’t look like it was a team that we were training with every day in patterns‚ organisational forms and so on‚" Ertugral said. "I need to understand the players and they need to understand me. It’s the coach who’s in charge‚ and I can’t be happy."The decisions that we made — putting on Thamsanqa Gabuza late and playing with two strikers‚ everything that we did — didn’t work. It was only in the 15 minutes at the end of the first half where we really started to play. But the question is very much that: you play at home — ho...

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