Orlando Pirates head coach Abdeslam Ouaddou has reacted to his side’s 1-1 draw against Mamelodi Sundowns on Saturday afternoon.
The Buccaneers scored a late goal at the Orlando Stadium to force a draw in the first leg of the MTN8 semi-final. Having lost back-to-back league matches, Pirates needed to to respond and they displayed their best performance of the season against a strong Sundowns side.
“Yes, I think they showed a fantastic performance today. It’s what we expect from our players when we play for such big club so let’s keep going. I hope they will confirm again and we still have the other players that will maybe not on the bench or maybe not on the pitch. We think for them and everybody will be important,” the coach told SuperSport TV.
Ouaddou happy with Orlando Pirates’ performance
“I think the content today was interesting – we showed some character, strength from our boys hich was aimed to play forward to create chances but in football you know sometimes it’s not easy because the result has to match the performance.
“At the moment, the result is not matching with the performance first of all, let’s hope that in the future we will take result and everything will be around. I should praise fans to be patient, I know it’s not the way in big clubs, but I hope they will be patient with us,” the Pirates coach added.
Ouaddou felt his side showed character to come back from a goal down and force a draw.
Ouaddou thanks Pirates fans for their patient
“I think the content today was interesting – we showed some character, strength from our boys hich was aimed to play forward to create chances but in football you know sometimes it’s not easy because the result has to match the performance.
“At the moment, the result is not matching with the performance first of all, let’s hope that in the future we will take result and everything will be around. I should praise fans to be patient, I know it’s not the way in big clubs, but I hope they will be patient with us.”
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