Defender Tapelo Xoki says the early exit in the CAF Champions League is hard to take for Orlando Pirates, who succumbed 5-4 on penalties to Botswana's Jwaneng Galaxy on Friday.
Pirates went into the match trailing the first-leg 1-0 and needed two clear goals to progress to the competition's group stages.
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Jose Riveiro's side managed to register a goal to force a penalty shoot-out, that they ended up on the losing side.
"It's a hard one to swallow for us, we dominated the game throughout from the first minute to the last," Xoki told the Pirates media.
"We could unfortunately not get the second goal, we tried to finish the game in the 90 minutes, but we couldn't.
"It went to penalties; you know penalties are a lottery, but congratulations to Jwaneng.
"We wish them all the best, and we'll try to pick ourselves up from this one."
Next for the Buccaneers is the final of the MTN8 against title rivals Mamelodi Sundowns on Saturday at the Moses Mabhida Stadium.
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