Sekhukhune United coach Eric Tinkler says they recognised Orlando Pirates' weakness after watching them in the CAF Champions League.
Babina Noko secured their first-ever away win at the Buccaneers after claiming a 1-0 victory at Orlando Stadium on Wednesday evening.
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Sekhukhune scored from a corner situation in the second half, which was similar to how Pyramids got of their goals against Pirates in the semi-final a few days ago.
“We made it more difficult for them, we managed to catch them on a few transition moments, we spoke about how important the set-pieces are against them because we found that’s obviously watching them in the CAF competitions was a weakness and we ended up getting a goal from a set-piece," Tinkler told SuperSport after the game.
“And I said the longer the game goes the greater the chance we have especially from a set-piece to win it and I thought second half performance from the boys really, really good. Just felt sometimes we got to be a little bit better on the ball and try keep possession because having to chase for 90 minutes is not an easy task,” he said.
“But like I said in the first half we gave them too many opportunities and my concern at halftime was that when you giving a team of their quality many opportunities you going to get punished.
“But I think we fixed it in the second half and the opportunities were far and few between you know, they had more greater opportunities.
“There was one that went wide of the post from Evidence Makgopa, there was one that they missed yes from a cross into the box. But ultimately a much better performance from us
defensively in the first half not so… I mean in the second half not so much the first half,."
