Richards Bay FC coach Vusumuzi Vilakazi says the team will continue fighting until the end of the season to secure their DStv Premiership status.
Sanele Barns' solitary strike late in the first half separated the two sides and dented the Buccaneers' top-two hopes whilst ensuring they avoid automatic relegation from the DStv Premiership.
Instead, the win indirectly relegated Cape Town Spurs back to the Motsepe Foundation Championship with the Natal Rich Boys focus now getting out of the bottom-two in the final two match days.
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"I did mention in the beginning that a proper set-up today in terms of our defensive structure will do for us because we know their strong points and weaknesses even though we didn't capitalise that much on their weaknesses in terms of exploiting the spaces in that particular time but we knew that their fullbacks have got the appetite of going forward," Vilakazi told SuperSport TV.
"So, the recovery if we regain and exploit those spaces but the recovery if we exploit those spaces but it's not something that we did the whole of the 90 minutes but I was happy with the defensive structure because we were trying to frustrate Orlando Pirates from penetrating especially in the midfield," he added.
Despite winning by a slender tally, the Natal Rich Boys had chances particularly on the counter-attack and the coach admitted it could've been a higher margin on the score-board.
"Ja, we had great moments in terms of the break-attack and counter-attack we just needed to be clinical in terms of getting those chances and try to convert our chances into goals but I think we a missed few.
"It could've been two, it could've three had they been clinical. But it's fine some other things cannot be rectified overnight. We still working and we will fight until the end," Vilakazi said.
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