Jwaneng Galaxy coach Morena Ramoreboli has opened up on how his side were able to overcome Orlando Pirates to secure a spot in the CAF Champions League group stages.
The Botswana outfit qualified for the group stages after defeating the Buccaneers 5-4 on penalties at Orlando Stadium on Friday evening.
The second leg ended 1-0 in favour of the Soweto giants, who were unable to find a second goal on the evening.
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"We wanted to drop deep, because we knew that they were going to come at us, try to get those spaces behind them," The South African tactician told the media.
"But to be honest, I think they were very disciplined in terms of dealing with our counter attacking game because if you check today, the [Paseka] Mako we usually see going forward and attacking, he was very disciplined today.
"The only side that was always overloading was the [Thabiso] Monyane side, which I think on that side we did not plant anybody because what we wanted to do, we thought Mako would come and we wanted to deal with Monyane in our zone because it was difficult for us to deal with [Patrick] Maswanganyi and Monyane at the same time. So we had to allow one of them to have the ball and try to deal with the other one.
"I think we did not have the confidence we had when we were at home. But it's obvious, you're away, you're leading 1-0, in the back of their minds is to say 'if we defend well and the match ends 0-0, we are going through'.
"Unfortunately, they managed to get a goal and I think it unsettled us a bit but we came back and we managed to win it on penalties, which I think we did try to practice as well, to make sure we come here and maybe take it through, so I'm happy we managed to win."