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<\/p>\nOrlando Pirates coach Abdeslam Ouaddou was full of praise for his squad after their hard-fought victory over Siwelele FC.
An excellent finish by substitute Oswin Appollis in the 80th minute earned the Buccaneers a 1-0 victory in a Betway Premiership match played at the Free State Stadium on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Ouaddou was delighted with the Appollis\u2019 and other substitutes\u2019 impact in the game.
\u201cLike I told you, I\u2019m a very happy coach,\u201d said Ouaddou after the game.
\u201cI told you that I have a fantastic dressing room, all the guys who come on the pitch have the ambition to change the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are fantastic, I call them impact players, it\u2019s why I call them impact players because they are here to change the game and since a few games they did and I hope they will continue like that,\u201d he added, singing praise of his squad,\u201d added the Moroccan coach.<\/p>\n
Ouaddou, however, admitted that Siwelele gave them a tough time and were unlucky to walk away from the match with nothing.<\/p>\n
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\u201cYou know, this team studied us well. They played a very compact block with a lot of aggression, they didn\u2019t allow us to play so we didn\u2019t have the time to play our football.<\/p>\n
But we made some changes again and the chance came at the end of the second half with the shoot from Appollis.
\u201cWe\u2019re going to analyse what we can improve, but the most important today was to take the three points and to be close to the log leaders because we know that it\u2019s very important not to lose points today against these teams,\u201d commented Ouaddou.
Following the victory over Siwelele, Pirates will now change their attention to the CAF Champions League where they face Lioli of Lesotho in the second leg of the preliminary round.
The Buccaneers come into this clash as the favourites to reach the second round of the competition following their 3-0 win in the first leg at the Free State Stadium last Saturday.
Ahead of the game, Ouaddou has warned his charges that despite their comfortable lead, the tie is not over.
\u201cI don\u2019t think like that. As long as we haven\u2019t finished the second leg, no I don\u2019t think we have one foot in the next round,\u201d replied Ouaddou when asked if the Buccaneers had one foot in the second round following their win over Lioli in Bloemfontein. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando Pirates coach Abdeslam Ouaddou was full of praise for his squad after their hard-fought victory over Siwelele…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,43],"tags":[46,79,70,39,58,53,68],"class_list":["post-3998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-betway-premiership","tag-caf","tag-entertainment","tag-national","tag-soccer","tag-sport","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"\n