Pitso Reacts To Tau Show

Al Ahly coach Pitso Mosimane has reacted to Percy Tau’s Man of the Match display against ES Setif in their CAF Champions League semi-final first leg.

The Bafana Bafana winger silenced his critics with two goals and two assists, leading the reigning champions to a 4-0 first-leg lead over ES Setif.

Tau netted Al Ahly’s opener before Setif’s Amir Karaoke got sent off. The Club of the Century used their one-man advantage to score three more, with Tau assisting Taher Mohamed and Mohamed Sherif before Tau complete his brace.

As a consequence, Mosimane was visibly pleased with his South African star signing after the match.

“I have enough experience because I’ve been a coach for 21 years, we always have a lot of chances but we don’t score. We’d have to be worried if we don’t create chances, but as long as we create, we don’t worry,” he said after the match.

“We have to be patient and believe in our abilities. Percy Tau scored in an important match, he netted in the African semi-final match. I am very happy that he scored the goals.”

Mosimane also insisted that the tie is not yet decided despite his side’s comfortable first-leg lead, saying the red card for Amir Karaoui helped his team.

“ES Setif is a very dangerous team and could have scored, but fortunately one of its players was sent off. You cannot kick a player like this, but we benefited from that and that is football,” he added.

“[But] we were in control of the match even before the expulsion. The coach of ES Setif is very good and brave, but I play against his team, not against him, and he could score against us, but he played the way I studied.”

“When I watched the Setif coach talking about Al Ahly, I knew very well that he had studied my team well.

“We had to play hard and press in order to score goals. In the last three minutes of the match I believed that we could score goals. We had to go to Algeria comfortably.”

“We have not yet decided the qualification. We have to play the Algeria match and go to the final from there, and I know that they did not let things pass easily for us.”

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