ORLANDO PIRATES DISMANTLE CHIEFS 3-1.
Luvuyo Memela celebrates his goal in front of Pirates and Chiefs faithfuls, FNB STADIUM.
Maleka Charles
FNB Stadium exploded into a frenzy, Saturday afternoon, as Orlando Pirates whipped the plugged Kaizer Chiefs 3-1 at the FNB Stadium, Johannesburg.
Goals from Thembinkosi Lodge and Luvuyo Memela were well enough to secure the Sea robbers a well-deserved three points to catch up with the high flying Mamelodi Sundowns at the summit of the PSL log.
The Orlando Pirates manager Milutin Sredojevic could not contain his excitement at the performance his team had displayed at the end of the day and said even though they beat a very good team in Kaizer Chiefs, the victory was good for South Africa as a whole.
“We won the game against a very very good Kaizer Chiefs today, it is good for South African football, it’s good for us that we got three points, we are happy but we need critical to look at what was wrong today and to look forward to the games ahead of us.”
Sredojevic commented that his substitutes came at the right time to make sure The Phefeni Boys are dismantled in front of their faithfuls and is also happy to have won his first derby since coaching The ghosts, 2017.
“Memela came first touch he scored, so it was absolutely the right change, with Makola we wanted to make three players in the middle so that we win that central area.”
“And with Mulenga we wanted to give him the debut, and I believe that he can show South Africa that he can give us so much. “
Luvuyo Amigo Memela who came in as a super substitute in the second half, said the coach had told them to push for more goals and
“In the half time the coach told us that we need to push high and try create more goals, which is we were lucky early in the second half we got the first chance, we used it.” Memela said.
The Kaizer Chiefs shot stopper Itumeleng Khune had a different view regarding the match and denied reality that Orlando Pirates had beaten them, instead the Spider boy said Chiefs gave Pirates freebies.
“Pirates didn’t beat us, they beat us on paper, but in reality we gave them the goals, those were freebies, and we feeling hard done by our own mistakes.” Khune said.
The Kaizer Chiefs coach Steve Komphela believed they should have buried Pirates in the first half but things didn’t go according their way at the end of the day.
“I think if you were to sum it up in one line, you would say we played they scored, but again when you go again first half, I thought first half we should have buried the match, we were pressing quit well, we didn’t get them time and space to get ten.”
