Highlands Park lost a few players to injuries in the win over Orlando Pirates, but Peter Shalulile feels their key players were targeted.
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Owen da Gama's troops advanced to the semi-finals of the MTN8 after defeating the Buccaneers 1-0 at Orlando Stadium.
"It's never easy to play at Orlando, we were playing against a good team. All we did was never giving up and doing what we are told by the coaches," Shalulile told SuperSport TV after the match. "When we are playing against players like these, they always want to take out our key players." The Namibian forward also went on to explain what the technical team's instructions were as the game went on. "We're always told by the coaches that subs [substitutions] always change the game. When we brought them on they changed the game and we managed to get a goal [from] a sub [substite]. "The coaches said we must not panic, when they're going up, the spaces will be exploited. We capitalised on the wing-backs and managed to get a goal. "It all happens at training, when I was told to drift wide, I had no choice but to run to the box, that's where I found the ball and gave the 45 [square pass] and we scored," he said.
