Orlando Pirates head coach Jose Riveiro was full of praise for the entire team after their 4-1 thrashing of Swallows FC on Friday night.
The Buccaneers get their CAF Champions League ambitions alive by claiming the bragging rights in the original Soweto Derby at Dobsonville Stadium.
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The Spanish tactician was delighted with the side's response against Swallows after last week's disappointing result against arch-rivals Kaizer Chiefs.
"We had a difficult week after our last game, we were not happy with our performance, the picture that we showed the team, it was not us," Riveiro told SuperSport after the game.
"Like I said before the game we were really looking for a game immediately to show the football that we want to play, we have the capacity to play.
"We showed many times this season but we want to be more consistent, so yeah, so glad to see the team, especially the aggression we showed in the first-half in the moments where we lost the ball, the amount of times we managed to control the game in their half. So, really satisfied with today's performance," he said.
Saleng stole the show with a hat-trick, but Riveiro was complimentary of the entire team on the night.
"We have a fantastic team full of good talent. I cannot even highlight somebody today, I think everybody was in a very good level from the centre-backs, they had a difficult task today to defend these long balls," he said.
"The work of the central midfielders to collect those second balls and give us continuity. They gave us the capacity to show our talent in front of them, all of our players in attack today, [Thembinkosi] Lorch, 'Dzvuka' [Dzvukamanja], 'KB' [Kabelo Dlamini] and of course Monnapule were in a very good level.
The Spanish mentor added that although he's not thinking about goal difference at this stage.
"The situation is tight, there's many teams in our situation fighting for the same objective, so even though I'm not thinking about the goal difference in this moment but you never know at the end of the season what's gonna come," he added.
"So what we want is to score one, go to the second, score two and go to the third and open a good show to the people, it's what the people want to see. They want to see chances when we have the talent that we have upfront."
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