Golden Arrows head coach Steve Komphela says there was not much difference between them and Orlando Pirates, other than they took their chances.
Arrows lost for the first time under Komphela after a hat-trick by Tshegofatso Mabasa, goals by Relebohile Mofokeng, Kabelo Dlamini, Sandile Mthethwa and Karim Kimvuidi handed them a big defeat.
However, Komphela believes the score should have been much closer if they had taken their chances.
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"Very difficult match in terms of numbers, the number of goals scored and one would say I don't think they are a true reflection of the scoreboard. It should have probably been 7-5 or 7-6, maybe against us," Komphela said on SuperSport TV.
"There's about three chances, one-on-one that you count. But one doesn't have to look at those from a negative point of view, accept defeat as it is, congratulations to Orlando Pirates, they are very difficult to play against.
"But I think there's a couple of questions we also asked that they needed to respond to but in all honesty again, I thought it was not easy to play on this surface, it's quite soft. There's a stage where I could see most of our players were starting to give in, especially in the wide areas," he said.
The former Moroka Swallows head coach went on and suggested that the 2-2 draw against SuperSport United on Wednesday took a lot out of them.
"When you look at it as a coach, you say, could it be that the SuperSport match took a lot out of us? Could it be that Richards Bay as well took a lot out of us? Because the SuperSport match first-half was 2-0, second-half we had to push and make it 2-2 and we really did not have much time to rest but it's not an excuse, it's just what you observe as a tactician," he said.
"But I thought Orlando Pirates took their chances, we could have taken our chances as well. In fact, before they scored theirs, we had a chance that (Kagiso) Malinga missed. I'm sure Malinga had two that he could have buried, (Nduduzo) Sibiya also had one with a left foot and so you count them.
"And easily when it was 5-0, then it could have been 5-4 and it's game on, they get excited and we keep on going. But I'm happy with a whole lot of other things, except the result, the goals we conceded, some were too soft towards the end, two from corner-kicks," he carried on.
"The corner-kicks that I saw, it's a short corner, we know what needs to happen when they go short, far post not monitored and you look at all those and say, 'No man, this is stuff that we worked on' can we click, can we do it right? And if they can't do it, you can't fault anyone, these are human beings. So the biggest challenge now is to go back, get them up and let's go to the next one again," Komphela added.
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