Kaizer Chiefs head coach Arthur Zwane has opened about his substitutions in the second half after Orlando Pirates were reduced to ten men.
Chiefs beat Pirates for the fifth time in the league for the first time thanks to an own goal by Olisa Ndah, who was required late in the game after a red-card to Innocent Maela.
Zwane says Amakhosi's plan was to suck the Buccaneers in and hit them on counter-attacks.
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"Ja, look it was very important for us to get three points today, though this is one game I felt we gave them too much respect in the first 15 minutes," Zwane told SuperSport.
"We looked like whenever we were applying a little bit of pressure on them, more especially waiting for (Miguel) Timm and (Ndabayithethwa) Ndlondlo to receive the ball because we set pressing traps in the middle.
"I think we could have done better and we were back in the game but the problem was we were losing every second ball, regain possession and then we did not take care of the ball," he said.
"Then we started playing in patches but we were always going to be difficult at some point when it comes to transition because obviously we wanted them to come with the ball, once they move with the ball forward we'll get those spaces. It worked, I think we created three, four chances if I'm not mistaken."
The Amakhosi legend went on to allude that their game plan worked out well in the second stanza after the speed of Saile forced Maela to make a foul and was red-carded.
"Then second-half again, obviously half-time I told them we need to put them under pressure, we need to force them to make mistakes. Then we got that one where Saile was going to the goals and then 'Ino' was sent off," he went on.
"Now we had to reshuffle the team again in terms of how do we go forward and unfortunately Sifiso (Hlanti) was not giving us that extra man going forward because there was no need for us to sit with four at the back.
"So I had to bring on Happy (Mashiane), then bring on (Kgaogelo) Sekgota so that he can eliminate one v one and put them under more pressure and we did but I think we could have done better. I'm still not happy in terms of how we were moving off the ball," he said.
"We could have done better in terms of movement off the ball so that we can be able to exploit the space for other players but I'll take this one because the boys worked very hard.
"We killed them, more especially we did not give them enough chances to create but I think forward we could have done better, Christian was very forceful as well towards the end of the game."
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