Jose Riveiro, the head coach of the Orlando Pirates, acknowledged his satisfaction with the Buccaneers’ performance in the 2-1 victory over Royal AM on Saturday.

Vincent Pule and Thabiso Monyane scored for Pirates, who defeated Royal AM 2-1. Mokete Mogaila scored for Thwihli Thwahla.

After the game, Riveiro said he was more pleased with how his players played than with the outcome.

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“Ja well again extremely happy with the result but more than that extremely happy with the performance today,” Riveiro told SuperSport TV.

“I think we did it very well in different phases, the game has different moments, both teams with different approaches.

“We got an advantage very soon which us very important in these type of games.

“Because the opponent needs to immediately react and play more open.

“It was a pity that we could not finalise the game before, with some transitions we had in the first-half and some mistakes we provoked in the pressing.

“But we did not suffer so much, we conceded one goal we could avoid in the second action but the way these guys are fighting every three days is something to put really in value. We are very proud of them.”

In order to explain the motivations for their pressing strategy, which resulted in an early goal, Riveiro was questioned.

“It’s coming also because of the surface, if you play short passes in this ground or even total passes you need to be really careful otherwise you’ll pay the bill,” he added.

“And it happened a couple of times, more than the goal and it’s something we did very well in that sense, we avoided nervous things and situations where could suffer.

” Play more practical than usual, we were more a pragmatic team today but I think that’s what the game was asking us to do and we did it fantastically.”