Orlando Pirates assistant coach Sergio Almenara says the second half against Kaizer Chiefs belonged to Buccaneers.
Pirates lost for the fifth consecutive game against Chiefs in the league's Soweto derby following a last-gasp 1-0.
The Buccaneers were reduced to ten men on the hour-mark after Innocent Maela was red-carded for denying Christian Saile Basomboli a clear goal-scoring opportunity.
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Second-half substitute Olisa Ndah, who was brought on to close the gap left by Maela in defence scored an own goal in the dying minutes from a flicked header in the box that looped over goalkeeper Sipho Chaine.
"We think that the first-half they were better than us, we had adjustments in the defence and they were taking advantage of that," Almenara, who stood in for the suspended head coach Jose Riveiro told SuperSport TV.
"We used halftime to readjust this, we came in the second half better than them in our opinion and in that moment we got a red card, we have to analyse to have this touch, one against one towards our goal.
"Why we have this action in a one against one, I'm not saying it was not a red card, we have to analyse why it happened in the region, why we lost the ball and didn't press et cetera,"
The Spanish coach continued to suggest that it was a game of two halves but it was "unfair" to lose through an own goal after being "better" in the second stanza.
"I think it was one half for Chiefs, the second half we were better than them. We readjusted, we were creating, they didn't create in the second half. The goal was an own goal, they didn't have anything, so a bit unfair honestly," he added.
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