Ouaddou: I Don’t Like That…

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Orlando Pirates head coach Abdeslam Ouaddou was not entirely happy with the side’s 2-1 victory over Magesi FC in the Carling Knockout on Tuesday night.

Second-half goals from Tshepang Moremi and Evidence Makgopa guided the Buccaneers to a spot in the semi-final at Orlando Stadium, sending the defending champions crashing out.

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“It’s a game at halftime, you should lead maybe three or four goals, and very nice saying that, unfortunately it’s an area we need to improve quickly if we want to be ambitious. Other than that, I want to congratulate the boys, it was not an easy game,” Ouaddou told SuperSport TV after the game.

“All the time difficult against these kind of teams, they are fighting, they have a very big fighting spirit, we played some nice football as well, I think our fans were very happy about that.”

The Buccaneers tactician expressed his disappointment with his side for not killing off the game in the final 15 minutes.

“Now, like you said if you want to be more ambitious. I have to say I was not very happy with the last 15 minutes.

“Instead of going forward and score the third goal, I think we made some short passes, I know the fans like that, players like that but for me I don’t like that. I need to score more goals and we need to be more clinical, it’s very important for the confidence to score goals.

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