Selangor were rarely troubled by an under-strength Pahang in their Super League match on Tuesday, and hammered the Elephants 5-2 in the week 18 encounter.
Pahang will travel to Ipoh for their second leg FA Cup semi-final match against Perak this weekend, and head coach Dollah Salleh opted to rest all of his key players against Selangor.
In the post-match press conference, Selangor boss B. Satiananthan remarked that regardless of the quality of the opponents, his charges still did well to produce the win.
"Maybe there are fans who will say that the win only happened because Pahang fielded their back-up players, but our situation was similar.