The former national team defender, a Caf Champions League winner with the Sea Robbers in 1995, says he s impressed by the quality in the Bucs squad but is concerned that something is lacking upfront:
“Pirates have an amazing squad and the difference between them and Mamelodi Sundowns locally is that they score few goals, while Sundowns are lethal in front of goal and do not play beautiful football. The interchange and passing of the Pirates players are the best, Motale told the
“However, my biggest concern about them is scoring, he continued, the decision-making in the final third of the field is letting them down.
“They have players like Rakhale, [Mogakolodi] Ngele, [Thabo] Mnyamane these are players that can decide the direction of the game at any moment. They have aggressive wing-backs, also our boy Nico Lukhubeni (on loan at TTM from Sundowns) who is doing well.
“They have a great team so we have to be aware of those. We have analysed them, they are very fluid and we have to make sure we create something from there. It is another important game, which is going to be difficult but a game we are going into it with the highest intentions which are nothing but to win it.
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Apr 4, 2021 - 11:00 am By Sipho Mlotha
Former Orlando Pirates coach Augusto Palacios says newly-appointed CAF president Patrice Motsepe must find ways to deal with the issue of age-cheating in African football.
Although the problem is not only exclusive to this continent, it remains a big headache for African football.
Last year, the Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Botswana and Comoros Island were disqualified from the COSAFA Men s Under-17 Championship for fielding overaged players. I think with Patrice the first thing should be about youth development in Africa, Palacios tells KickOff.com. To clean this thing of cheating of the age. For youth development and clubs and national team it needs to be great. He needs to create a new competition you see like COSAFA has. You can t have COSAFA alone. But congratulations to him it s a good achievement you know, it s beautiful because we ve been always controlled by Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, now it s different.
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