Sinethemba Badela delight as Durban City see off Chippa to secure Nedbank Cup last 16 place

Badela began his City tenure with a Betway Premiership with a win over 1-0 Polokwane City, before losing 2-0 to the Chilli Boys.

But this time, they managed to hold Vusumuzi Vilakazi's charges to a goalless draw before emerging as 3-2 penalty shootout winners.

Reflecting on the game, Badela expressed his delight but admitted his team could have won the tie in regulation time.

He told SuperSport after the match: "I want to congratulate my players on a better performance than last week.

"The performance was better, but I thought we missed a lot of chances from situations which we trained. Terrence (Mashego) had two good chances in the first and even in the second half.

"The decision-making in the final third is letting us down, but we will work on it. I am happy with the clean sheet over 120 minutes, and we didn't give away too many chances.

"They had one chance on transition; we failed to counter-press, and it became a counter-attack with not good counter-pressing, but we will improve."

"Today was all about reaction, we had to react from the previous loss, and we had to do it on the pitch," Badela added.