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Orlando Pirates head coach Micho Sredojevic said his team was looking for more than the five goals in their first CAF Champions League game this year.
The Buccaneers marked their return to the Champions League after a five-year absence with a 5-1 win over Seychelles Light Stars FC at Orlando Stadium on Wednesday night.
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Although the game started with the dominant Bucs game, it was the visitors who scored the first goal early in the first half to silence the local crowd in Orlando.
However, Bucs came back stronger after goals from Thabo Qalinge, Augustine Mulenga, Mpho Makola, Justin Shonga and Linda Mntambo sealed the Soweto Giants' agreement.
S addressing the media after the match, Sredojevic praised the introduction of Thembinkosi Lorch and Shonga, the two players he called firefighters later in the match.
"We have created chances and are missing. Later, we substituted two players (Meshack) Maphangule and Kuda Mahachi and we put Lorch and Shonga as firefighters, so we call it because 3-1 is not enough. They came with the score of Shonga and Lorch impacting the game in his own way, provided we scored that fifth goal in order to satisfy something we wanted. We did not want to concede, it's negative (and) we have to be critical, "Sredojevic told the media.
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The coach said his team will score more than five goals to go to Seychelles for their return leg on Dec. 05.
"We wanted to score more than five. The most important thing that we have to satisfy ourselves is the fact that we have expanded the pool of players competing for certain places for the upcoming matches. , Said the coach.
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