With the spotlight on Orlando Pirates head coach Abdeslam Ouaddou, legend Edward Motale has suggested two areas the team needs to work on before facing Mamelodi Sundowns.
Pressure is piling on Ouaddou after he lost his opening two games in the Betway Premiership as the new head coach.
The Moroccan mentor has big shoes to fill of Jose Riveiro, who made all sorts of statistical history in his near three-year tenure at The Buccaneers.
Including becoming the first coach to win seven league games in a row at Pirates from the start in the PSL era last season, mounting a serious title challenge, that only faded in the second round.
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And so The Buccaneers supporters expected continuity with Ouaddou and after losses against Sekhukhune United and Marumo Gallants, there is a damaged confidence among The Ghosts, that the 46-year-old coach can turn things around.
Motale, however, has drawn positives from the three games so far under the former Morocco defender.
According to the former Bafana Bafana defender, Pirates need to improve their conversation rate and maintain consistency at the back.
"There's lot of positives, there's a lot of good things, I mean you look at the stats, from the previous game they had 18 shots, it shows they are attacking, it's just that they are not scoring," Motale told KickOff.com.
"They just need to work on their scoring chances and the defence," Motale said.
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In their win over Polokwane City in the MTN8, Pirates had ten shots but only put three of those on target, including the two goals they scored, an on target rate of 30 percent.
The Soweto giants had a shots on target rate of 23 percent in their defeat to Sekhukhune, after taking 13 shots and putting only three on target.
The Bucs fired 18 shots at goal in the loss against Gallants but with seven hitting the target, a rate of 38 percent accuracy.
Pirates have not had, also, a consistent back-four so far under Ouaddou, as Bandile Shandu started at right-back in the win over City. Tshepo Mashiloane took over since then in that position and has been criticized for lacking quality decision-making in the final third.
The Buccaneers also tampered with their centre-back pairing against the Bloemfontein side, with new signing Lebone Seema partnering Mbekezeli Mbokazi, who was paired with Nkosinathi Sibisi in the previous matches.
Lebone was the second lowest rated player of all starters by soccer data website soccer24, who gave him a mark of 5,7/10 following defeat against Gallants.
Pirates host Mamelodi Sundowns in the MTN8 semi-final first on Saturday afternoon.
