Buccaneers coach insists side still work in progress
Sredojevic won’t press panic button after loss
Improving their entrances into the opposition area is the key aspect keeping Orlando Pirates’s potentially powerful engine from turning over smoothly at the start of the 2018-19 season‚ Bucs coach Milutin Sredojevic has said.
Again on Wednesday‚ as Pirates lost 1-0 against Bidvest Wits in the Absa Premiership‚ Bucs could justifiably claim to have dominated possession.
Again they could not quite profess to have created enough clearcut chances from that domination to have justified saying they had been denied a victory.
Sredojevic said Pirates are in a process.
“In football there are two [possible] crises. A crisis of performance and a crisis of the result‚” the coach said.
“When you have a crisis of the performance and the result then it is a disaster.
“But when you have a season in front of you‚ losing today accidentally [because of a deflected own goal by Gladwin Shotolo]‚ this is a slight setback. However‚ we do not at all have a crisis of performance.
“We believe we have dominated all the matches we have played.
“Building a house you cannot at the same moment put the foundation‚ the first floor‚ and immediately the roof.
“There are areas of the game where we are satisfied.
“Where we are not is that we are lacking the amount of entrances [into the area]‚ whether it is side attack‚ beating offside‚ from setpieces.
“All these we are working on and we believe‚ with the players we have and work we are doing‚ we will very soon fix these and then we shall have the complete product.
“Until now‚ we have half a product. We dominate‚ but that domination does not bring the results.”
Given Bucs’ strong second half of last season to finish runners-up‚ and some strong signings‚ it all was expected to run like a Swiss watch this campaign. —