Orlando Pirates coach Sredojevic rues another setback'

Orlando Pirates coach Milutin Micho' Sredojevic felt that he had a game-plan in place to put Supersport United to the sword in Nelspruit on Wednesday night.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry as the poet Robert Burns wrote and Micho's plans went all kinds of awry in Nelspruit. Supersport United netted what proved to be the winning goal via Clayton Daniels. Pirates skipper Happy Jele would miss a penalty ten minutes later but that was the closest the Buccaneer's came to restoring parity.

Sredojevic told Supersport: We had a plan to dominate possession, control the space, control the numbers. In the first half we had so many possession turnovers from the players that were banking they were going to control the game.

From those turnovers the opponent opened some counter-attacks. At halftime we had agreed to correct that and not allow it to happen. In the first half it was like weight of expectations, anxiety brought us to making mistakes that are not natural. It looked like we were too much under stress in any way, he continued.

At halftime we relaxed the situation and put on a team to play the way we know how to play to control. Unfortunately, in a moment where we wanted to bring on the right player for [Abbubaker] Mobara, who was on a yellow card [Asavela] Mbekile we conceded the corner-kick.

And in that moment [after conceding the goal] we brought on players to affect the game, [Luvuyo] Memela, Thamsanqa Gabuza and Mpho Makola. They helped us to go on and attack in all cylinders.

If we had scored on that penalty it would have changed the whole complexion of the game completely. However, we tried under difficult circumstances. I want to call this a setback.

The Serbian cut a frustrated figure in his post-match interview, he vented his frustration with his players lack of urgency until going a goal down. Pirates pressed for an equalizer but couldn't find the finish.



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