Orlando Pirates head coach Jose Riveiro has opened up on what worries them about Stade d'Abidjan in their upcoming CAF Champions group stage clash on Saturday.
The Buccaneers resume their Group C campaign at Orlando Stadium against the Ivorian side, who held them to a 1-1 draw in mid December.
The Soweto giants have dropped back to second spot in the group, after Al Ahly went two points clear at the summit of the section, following their 6-1 thrashing of Belouizdad, in a game in hand they played later three days before Christmas.
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Ahead of matchday four in the group at Es'godini on Saturday evening, Riveiro has revealed that the Les Yeyes have gamesmanships around set-pieces, that they need to seriously manage, if they are to come out victorious.
"Every game in this competition is an important chapter especially in our young players' careers, to deal with these kind of opponents like D'Abidjan for example, who know very well how to compete in these types of games," Riveiro said in a pre-match press conference.
"How to reduce your possibilities in some specific scenarios, how for example they dealt with us with set-pieces in the first-leg, a game in Ivory Coast, we were punished in one specific scenario, they took their chance.
"They had blockers in set-pieces, corners, free-kicks, for example in this game the referee was not really aware, so hopefully tomorrow we can do a better job in those scenarios. We can learn to minimize those things the opponent can be better than us, because these types of games are always decided by small margins and small details," the Spanish coach said.
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"So if we manage to reduce opportunities for the opponent in those set-pieces, free-kicks, blocking situations in the corners, probably we will be closer to getting a good result," the 47-year-old old mentor concluded.