Jose Riveiro Lost for Words as Orlando Pirates Lose to Jwaneng Galaxy!

Jose Riveiro Lost for Words as Orlando Pirates Lose to Jwaneng Galaxy! The Buccaneers lost on penalties to the minnows from Botswana. 

Orlando Pirates lost 5-4 on penalties against Jwaneng Galaxy last Friday. Head coach Jose Riveiro was dumbfounded after the agony of the result. 

The Buccaneers won the game 1-0, thanks to a scrappy goal from Evidence Makgopa. This levelled the tie and took the game to extra time and eventually penalties. 

Youngster Relebohile Mofokeng missed the only penalty of the game as The Buccaneers exit the CAF Champions League.

“There’s not much to decode about the game.

“It’s a difficult game to explain from the scoring perspective.

“I think the guys’ performance tonight was more than enough to drive us to the group stages but for reasons that are difficult to explain at this moment, straight after the game, we couldn’t make it in the 90 minutes and then in the penalties anything could happen.

“It’s part of the game. It’s something that we have to do better, we have to dominate as well and today we couldn’t.

“We started the game with a one goal disadvantage, but I think … I don’t know what we need to do,” Riveiro said.

“It’s difficult to explain that in the last four games we scored only one goal and the way we did it today was a rebound or ugly goal.

“It’s a difficult day. It’s not acceptable, our team is built and prepared to go to Champions’ League group stage so we cannot accept this result and only say that we were unlucky.

“Nobody feels proud in our group about the result and the fact that we are not going to the group stages. We have to accept it, analyse it and we have to take the responsibility, the coach more than anybody else.

“We need to have proper reflection about our participation in this competition because it was not good at all.” He elaborated.

The Buccaneers take on Mamelodi Sundowns in the MTN 8 final on Saturday night. Jose Riveiro Lost for Words as Orlando Pirates Lose to Jwaneng Galaxy!