Denmark coach Morten Olsen says his team must rid their game of the errors which blighted their entertaining 2-1 victory over Cameroon in Pretoria.
Samuel Eto'o gave Cameroon the lead after a bad Christian Poulsen error but Nicklas Bendtner and Dennis Rommedahl goals gave Denmark a vital victory.
"We made too many elementary mistakes and I can't allow that," said Olsen.
"We must correct that. I wasn't happy but they fought heroically. Some didn't play well but they fought."
Olsen said a lack of match fitness from some his key players was to blame for a performance marred by losses in concentration and elementary errors,. bbc online.
"We had Nicklas Bendtner, Jon Dahl Tomasson and Daniel Jensen on the pitch, and those players haven't played much," he said.
"But that's the way it is, that's why we had to fight so much. We had nothing more to offer.
"We have too many players who are injured or have been injured so in that respect it was a heroic physical effort, but if we want to progress in this tournament we have a lot to work on. We know that very well."
Olsen did take his team's will to win as a positive from one of the most entertaining games of the tournament so far.
"We actually didn't start very well, we had one good chance through Rommedahl and just after that we made an individual mistake and they scored," he said.
"But we showed spirit, we got back in the game, we showed that we wanted to win.
"We showed things that we don't want to do again, that's for sure, that we need to talk to the players about over the next couple of days.
"But we did have a number of chances. Compared to the game with Holland there were more chances.
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