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Riveiro Hails 'Excellent' Pirates Stars After CAF Thrashing

Riveiro Hails 'Excellent' Pirates Stars After CAF Thrashing

Orlando Pirates head coach Jose Riveiro was full of praise for his players after the 3-0 win over Stade d'Abidjan in the CAF Champions League on Saturday night.

The Buccaneers maintained their unbeaten record in the group stages with an impressive victory at Orlando Stadium.

The Spanish tactician was proud of the collective performance from start to finish.

Read: Pirates Leapfrog Al Ahly To Top CAFCL Group

"From beginning to end a really good performance from the boys, excellent attitude, excellent rhythm, excellent intentions, well executed our plan," Riveiro told SABC Sport.

"Obviously we're playing a competition where goal difference could play a role in the end but I think we cannot complain about anything today, it was an extraordinary performance in every phase.

"Not allowing the opponent to play at all, we managed to keep our pressing very well during the 90 minutes, provoking a lot of mistakes from the opponent, they don't play well from the build-ups. I think it's a really positive game."

When asked if the goals were training ground moves, he replied, "There's components obviously of the things we emphasize everyday, the way we want to play football, where we want to find as much as possible our key players. So like I said, it's a great day to celebrate, the coaching staff did a good job, it was difficult to deal with this team on set-pieces, in the first fixture," Riveiro went on.

"I don't remember them having a goal chance today, a couple of shots but from long range. Overall it's a day to be happy as a group."

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