Orlando Pirates head coach Jose Riveiro was pleased to see his side secure maximum points at Royal AM after expressing displeasure with the side's showing in the first half.
Pirates boosted their chances of qualifying for the CAF Champions League thanks to goals by Patrick Maswanganyi, Thalente Mbatha, Relebohile Mofokeng and Kabelo Dlamini.
Despite scoring four goals on the day, Riveiro was critical of the side's performance at the Danie Craven Stadium.
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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 said on SuperSport.
"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.
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"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.
Pirates had a forced change in the first stanza after Thabiso Lebitso got injured and the Spanish tactician said he hopes it's not serious.
"To be honest I know too little about it. The only thing I knew is that he couldn't continue, something on his shoulder, I guess or hope that it's something minor and we can have him ready soon," he added.
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