Royal AM head coach John Maduka says he was sure that the Orlando Pirates defence would struggle to keep Victor Letsoalo quiet.
Letsoalo was highly influential in Royal’s opening goal after pressurizing Happy Jele before poking the ball to Levy Mashiane tucked home into an empty.
did couldn’t hold for a win, as the game ended 1-1 on Thursday evening, but Maduka insists a point at the Buccaneers is an encouraging one.
“We wanted to take more charge of the game, remember we’re playing away from home, there’s pressure, so you try to be cautious, you don’t just go all out,” Maduka said after the game.
“We’re playing against Pirates, what they can do especially when they’re on the ball, so you gotta be very careful and we did that.
“We made some mistakes when we started, they made some mistakes as well, I think the game itself first-half we didn’t use the ball well, especially when we were pressed,” he said.
“The decision-making was also not right but after that we got the goal also from their mistake but I think we made a good run, put pressure on them because we know once we put pressure, they can’t be able to deal with Victor [Letsoalo] and Victor made a good run there, then we managed to get that goal. Again we conceded a soft goal, a goal that was not supposed to be there, not okay!
“It’s football, you lose some and win some, it’s a young team on the block but so far you understand we’re getting better and better. We will win games, as you know the way it is, everyone wants to shoot us down. It’s not easy for the players but they’re working hard.
“And for us to get a point away from home it’s achieving something, it’s a young team on the block, you get a point from Pirates, it’s something. It will get tougher but we’ll get experience, we’ll get better and we’ll win games and we’ll lose some, it’s football, its part of it but we take it one game at a time,” he added.