Former Orlando Pirates goalkeeper Moeneeb Josephs has slammed his former team following their shock 1-0 loss to Sekhukhune United on Saturday.
Playing in front of a packed Orlando Stadium, the Sea Robbers failed to find the back of the net in their first Betway Premiership match of the season. Despite their 2-0 win against Polokwane City in the MTN8 quarter-finals, Pirates looked sluggish a week later against an organised Sekhukhune side.
Speaking on the Soccer Beat podcast, Josephs felt Orlando Pirates players took the match for granted after their impressive MTN8 quarter-final win.
“Everyone was looking forward to this season, looking at how last weekend’s game went but we have to be constructive as well,” he said. “This team looks like a team that got results last weekend and thought to themselves, ‘I just need to be on the pitch, and the results will take care of themselves. ‘
“That will not happen; we never looked like we were going to hurt them. This is Orlando Pirates, we must know that the team that faces us will want to beat us; they will be more motivated.
“We came up against a team that has structure. Eric (Tinkler) structured that team and we can’t break them down; we don’t have plan A or B.”
We have all the ammunition to break them down, but we are using them in the wrong areas. We have to go back to the basics, simple as that,” Josephs said in a rant.
The double treble winner questioned Orlando Pirates coach’s decision to experiment during the first match of the season.
“Listen, these results hurt because we spoke last season about what we need to do to stay up there. We need to start well, we need to start on the right foot.
Moeneeb slams Orlando Pirates
“Time for experimentation is gone; hence, you had the pre-season. My disappointment as well comes from the technical team, because why didn’t we carry on with the team that did well last season? because they know exactly what is expected; the tempo, the pressure and then slowly introduce these new players,” said the Orlando Pirates legend.
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