'One of our worst performances ever' - Riveiro on Bucs' draw

Orlando Pirates head coach Jose Riveiro did not hold back when describing the side's performance against Cape Town Spurs.

Pirates went ahead thanks to an early goal by Relebohile Mofokeng but they conceded late after Gadiel Michael levelled matters for the Urban Warriors with 14 minutes to go.

"Terrible one, one of our worst performances ever, difficult to swallow, difficult to understand, difficult in the beginning to manipulate the spaces but we managed to find two, three times the proper spaces to be in advantage," Riveiro told SuperSport TV.

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"But then we stopped, we were not aggressive in the pressing, we allowed them to run comfortably in transitions every time they had the opportunity, we didn't apply ourselves in their own half.

"In the second-half I don't know we were waiting just for the goal (equaliser) to start attacking again, we were passive, not taking any risks from the first line, not brave in the pressing as well," he said.

"They found the spaces everywhere and every time they wanted, so difficult to explain, a really bad game from our side, so ja it's time to be critical and for sure do better the next time.

The Spanish tactician went on and suggested that they have not learned from their past mistakes of dropping points against the so-called small teams.

"I'm not saying it's easy but we need to try, we need to be more brave, we need to be more dynamic, much more active and not speculate with the result because it's not the first time that this has happened to us," he continued.

"And it seems we didn't learn so much from the last time, starting from myself, so we have to be critical and we have two days to prepare for the next game and we're coming," he added.

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