Orlando Pirates head coach Jose Riveiro says the 4-0 scoreline does not tell the true reflection about his side's performance against Royal AM.
The Buccaneers kept in touching distance with second-place Stellenbosch after the big win at the Danie Craven Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
The Spanish tactician was not happy with how the side played in the first half as they went into the break with a 1-0 lead.
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"Well, congratulations to everyone, it's nice to get a good result again in front of a fantastic crowd but not a good first-half, not happy with our performance in the first 45 minutes, we lost control of the game many times in these situations or times when we were leading," Rivero told SuperSport after the game.
"Not the football control that we were playing recently, so there's many things to adjust. Second-half I think we found ourselves a little bit more in the last third, we managed to capitalize the chances. A very important victory in this moment of the season. We cannot dream about playing beautiful every single game, it's make sure we get the three points and the result, so happy with the situation right now.
"I think we didn't reach well a couple of situations in the central corridor, we were allowing them to press us in key situations always backwards, we didn't find more situations where we can attack the last line of the opponent," he said.
"From that they grew with transitions, with speed, the work of George in the last line. It was a rough game, it was a tough game, the 4-0 maybe tells that it was an easy one but not at all. So yeah, happy that we came back in the second-half with a better organization and with more clearer ideas."
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