Sekhukhune United slump prompts Eric Tinkler review during FIFA break

Babina Noko suffered another setback at the weekend, bowing out of the Carling Knockout at the first hurdle after a 3-1 defeat away to Golden Arrows. 

The result compounded a difficult run in which they also dropped points in two Betway Premiership matches prior, but Tinkler, who joined Sekhukhune with a clear ambition to compete for silverware, intends to do a thorough review. 

"You know, I've been in this situation many, many times before. Does it make a difference? I don't think so, to be honest. Everybody feels the loss, and the way we lost," said Tinkler.

"Especially after the performance, I don't think we deserved what we got. Like Manqoba [Mngqithi] said, a tale of two halves – they got the goals in the second half, we didn't.

"But we should have killed the game off in the first half, so I can't look at the games and say, 'In the three games that we didn't win any, you've got a problem here.' 

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"No, I've got to look at each game, what was the problem there? Why did we lose that one? Why did we draw that one? Why did we lose this one? 

"So I don't look at it like you look at it, as a journalist, I look at it completely different. I will go home, I will analyse it, I will have a look at where the mistakes are and then we'll look to fix those mistakes."

The former Bafana Bafana midfielder added that he could not have predicted Sekhukhune would go into a slump.

"I'm not a magician. I can't foresee things, that the mistakes are going to come in this game. I don't wave a little magic wand to be able to figure these things out. These things, unfortunately, happen," he defended.