After playing two matches without scoring a single goal, Orlando Pirates head coach Jose Riveiro has responded to his side's impotence in the Carling Black Label Cup last weekend.
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Having scored just one goal in their last two official matches, Pirates' blank spell now stretches to four games, including two Soweto derbies and a 4-0 mauling at the hands of Mamelodi Sundowns on Saturday.
Pirates made use of four strikers in Kermit Erasmus, Evidence Makgopa, Eva Nga and Zakhele Lepasa on the day, although none of the Bucs forwards managed to get a goal for their side.
Speaking to the media after the match, the Spanish coach indicated that scoring goals was not the only metrics on which he measures his forwards and that he expects the weight of goal scoring equally amongst his team.
"The two games we played today [Saturday] are totally different. The first game I didn't get a chance to check the figures, but I think we had most the possession against team who was playing with a low block, so we must get the initiative and be the team who spends more time on the ball but still we didn't manage to create so much to evaluate the players that you consider as strikers," he told journalists at FNB Stadium.
"In the second game it was a different story, we knew that in the circumstances and especially against a team like Sundowns, they will probably be the ones who are dominating the game with the ball so the participation of our strikers in the second game it was different.
"We asked different things from them, so my obligation is to evaluate the strikers in different circumstances and not only because we didn't score goals one more time. The responsibility to score goals is for the rest of the players and not for the keeper but there's many positive things we speak about the individuals upfront and hopefully we can get something."
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Monnapule Saleng is Pirates' top goal scorer with five strikes to his name this season.
