Orlando Pirates head coach Jose Riveiro took a different stance to TS Galaxy counterpart Sead Ramovic, who put a spotlight on bad pitches in the MTN8 quarter-finals.
Galaxy were thrashed 3-1 by Stellenbosch in the MTN8 quarter-finals on Sunday but what hogged the headlines was Ramovic blasting the PSL for the state of the pitch at the Danie Craven Stadium.
After the game, the Serb-German mentor, rued qualifying for the tournament for the first time, as he felt the pitch was in a bad state for such a lucrative tournament.
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"Look, we're fighting the whole season to get into the top eight, to have a chance to win a cup, prize money and then you come to a game where probably a cow can break [their] legs," Ramovic said on SuperSport TV.
"And I ask myself, how can PSL allow games to play on such fields like this? Now they have increased MTN8 [prize] money, they can increase until R100 million, they have to start to fix the fields and not allow my players, a professional team, that we can play on fields like this.
"It's a disgrace, it's embarrassing. And then you ask yourself why supporters don't want to come to watch the games. What should they see, all these kind of…what is this? You can't make an easy pass," Ramovic said.
"It's not about we lost, I would say it anyway even if we won, it's about principles, they want a professional league, everything on the top but this is embarrassing," the fiery coach added.
A day prior, the pitch at Orlando stadium was also in a bad state, as Riveiro was asked what he made of the bad surface.
"I don't have an answer to that, we tried to be ourselves even though the scenario made things difficult in some moments, [especially] in the build-up process," Riveiro said in the post-match press conference.
"We knew, I'm trying to put our performance in value due to the circumstances. I'm not even here to criticize, the field was not ready, the winter was tough and it's difficult but for sure people will keep working in the coming weeks.
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"It's gonna take time to fix, unfortunately today it was not in good condition but it will be very soon," the Spanish coach added.