Polokwane City coach Phuti Mohafe admits he was left surprised by Abdeslam Ouaddou's tactics after his side's 2-0 loss to Orlando Pirates.
Rise and Shine were bundled out of the MTN8 in the quarter-final round following a 2-0 defeat at Orlando Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
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The Polokwane tactician admits they were caught off-guard by Pirates' movement on the day.
“Ja, we suffered in the first half because that’s what we had expected but the thing we didn’t expect was the movement from Pirates. They had a lot of positional rotations whereby the overloaded when the striker is dropping, he is overloading with another winger to make three-tens,” Mohafe told SuperSport TV.
“So, that one created a lot of confusion to us. But after conceding that first goal that’s when we realised that we have to stick to the fullback with the winger and the winger with the opponent’s fullback.
“So, that one we were able to manage their left-side because it’s the one that was very strong. So, after doing that they realised that no – these guys they are now punishing us on that one.
“They go through the middle whereby Mbule was going deep to receive from deep – he leaves that gap and you not following so I think those are the elements that hurt us but we corrected that,” he further added.
