It was a match between Orlando Pirates and Mamelodi Sundowns, and Bucs defender Tapelo Xoki said letting Downs score early made it difficult for him, as the Brazilians won 1-0 in the DStv Premiership on Saturday in Orlando. Stadium.
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Xoki and the rest of the Pirates team seemed very shaky for most of the game, when they tried to build up from the back, which led to Sundowns getting a goal in just six minutes of play in the game courtesy of Cassius Mailula, who took the DStv Premiership score tally for seven.
The Bucs defender said losing that game was tough because he fought hard to make sure he bounced back, but there was no day and he would move on from the loss.
“It was difficult to swallow, everyone made a good change. They scored early, which made the game difficult for us. But we stuck to the game plan, tried to build up, keep the ball and ask questions of them. We unlucky not to score with Vincent Pule’s shot, hard to do,” said the Bucs defender.
“But we will move on from this, we have a lot of positives from the game.”
The Pirates and Downs match saw the Orlando Stadium full of Buccaneers fans in black and white and Bafana Ba Style in yellow. Seeing the fans rally behind his team to try and get the all-important equalizer to at least get a point, Xoki felt he had let the fans down, but he thanked them for their support and said he would do better in the next game.
“Great energy from AmaBuccaneer. They were there from the first whistle until the end. They kept going and going and they were with us in the second half when we almost scored the equaliser. We would like to thank them. We will take ourselves and ensure that we will get positive results,” he said.
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The loss stopped the Bucs; run of three consecutive wins, while for Sundowns, they stretched their winning streak to 15 games. In terms of points, the Pretoria outfit leads the log standings with 55 points after 21 games, while Bucs has registered 28 points and is in fourth place in the table (it is possible to go down the log depending on Sunday’s result) .