After
watching the Orlando Pirates verses Kaizer Chiefs game again I think I can now
analyse the game. I will split this into two categories the positives and the negatives
from the Pirates side…
Positives
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Great plan from Roger de Sa with the best starting 11.
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I like how the boys worked on Reneilwe ‘Yeye’ Letsholonyane and Siphiwe ‘Shabba’
Tshabalala making sure that Yeye ran out of ideas and he was frustrated.
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The ever hard working Andile Jali was at it again winning second balls in the
middle and a great hustle to win the ball from Shabba and feed Collins Mbesuma
a defensive splitting pass to second.
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Great day in the office for Sifiso Meyiwa and Oupa ‘Ace’ Manyisa as usual.
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Collins Mbesuma did well against 2/3 defenders upfront pity our supporting
players where too far
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We had a great first half which meant Josta Dladla and company were just
running around winning ball but doing nothing with it.
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We retained the ball well and used it effectively.
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Benni McCarthy showed hunger after coming on...
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Bibo came in to eliminate the tennis we were playing; he made sure we started
passing the ball around.
Negatives
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Robert Smith and his lineman should be charged with corruption for disallowing
Mbesuma goal after the ball deflected from a Chiefs player, as well for not
protecting and treating players the same, Myeni got a yellow card for diving
and Shabba got nothing how fair?
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Playing one striker is not going to work for us; we are football players
meaning carpet football not the tennis we were playing in the second half.
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Players didn't test Itumeleng Khune from range as they usually do to other
keepers.
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At times we reached going forward which meant our passes didn't find the
intended player.
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Second half we give the one leg player too much room to move around, which
created problems as we were defending too deep leading to players not knowing
who should clear the ball and who shouldn't.
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Players were afraid to shot and test Khune point in case Daine Klate and Thulasizwe
Mbuyane.
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Mbesuma should stop been angry when sub'd this is the second time he didn't
shake the hand of the play coming on or that of the entire technical staff
(keeping my googlies on this one).
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Happy Jele should cut overlapping too much as that exposes SS21 and LL14 he is
not yet himself so he should do as little overlapping as possible.
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Myeni had a quite game and for me he should have been sub'd for Mbuyane.
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It was proven again that Tlou Segolela is not a game starter even though he
didn't have a bad game he didn't trouble the defense.
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Klate had a quite game according to his standard I expected him to do more of
what he did to Shabba even more but for some stranger reason he was afraid to
even taken shots/responsibility at one stage.
All
in all great plan from Roger de Sa and the technical team, the guys tried their
best so out of 100% they get 75%.
By Khutjo Phillip
Leremi
