THEY SAID IT . . .

“A bit more drive, a bit more going into it, and we deserved to win with a one-goal advantage. Definitely not a result we can be happy with.” Kaizer Chiefs coach Ernst Middendorp believes his young team deserved to beat Pirates in Saturday’s Soweto derby.

“Later on we came in the game and we had our own chances. Being a goal down, we did not give up and we showed character. We came out and scored that goal, we could have scored even more. It was not meant to be. We wanted to win, we gave everything.” Orlando Pirates coach Milutin Sredojević after the 1-1 draw.

"My feeling was that in this match the motivation was at the right level. I think we started well, then we conceded the goal after four minutes in a stupid way. In that moment, we needed to stay in the match and we were not able to because we made a lot of mistakes against the wrong opponents. We have to say they played really fantastic football." Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri is 7-4 favourite to be the next EPL manager sacked after his team got buried by Manchester City on Sunday.