Ajax Cape Town coach Roger de Sa insisted it was not major setback that he will not be on the bench for his club in Saturday's Nedbank Cup final against Mamelodi Sundowns.

This after he earned a suspension in their Saturday's 2-2 draw against Orlando Pirates at Cape Town Stadium for allegedly kicking the ball onto the pitch at the end of a long tirade of abuse at match officials.

The suspension means he will miss the cup final in Port Elizabeth and the first outing for next season.

"I'll still coach the team this week, I'll do the pre-match talk, I'll talk to them [the players] at half-time.

"It's not the end of the world. It happens, although I really don't know why I was sent off," De Sa.

But the coach was clearly agitated through much of the second half as several decisions went against his makeshift team - which only had four regulars in the starting line-up - and a torrent of verbal abuse eventually caught up with him.

It means that at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium on Saturday he cannot sit with the technical team and reserves.

"I'll be in the stands like many managers used to do in the past. There will be ways to communicate with the bench," he added the coach.

De Sa said the showing by his side against Pirates was "the performance I was looking for leading up to the final".

"We might have won our two matches before that but it wasn't very impressive. But Saturday's showing excites me a bit."

"It's great preparation when you are about to face Sundowns to take on Pirates because the quality of their players is so similar.

"We played pretty well on the break and overall, I was happy with all aspects. We'll be even better in certain areas for the final."

He was also pleased with the Urban Warriors' fifth place finish in the league.