Orlando Pirates vs AmaZulu starting lineup

Orlando Pirates vs AmaZulu starting lineup . Orlando Pirates are playing at home and this is a great advantage for them. Pirates are in 5th position and AmaZulu are in 9th position just behind Golden Arrows. Remember Amazulu they have a former pirates player Gabadinho Mhango who also score the last time AmaZulu played with Amakhosi. Mhango might try to prove the Pirates that he is still a great player so their defence might be in trouble.

They also have George Maluleka and Zuma Dumisani which are both former Kaizer Chiefs players.

Cup: PSL /DSTV Premiership

Time: 19: 30 South African Time

Date: 2022-1014

Stadium : Orlando Stadium

Orlando Pirates XI: Ofori, Maela, Sibisi, Ndah, Shandu, Hotto, Timm, Motshwari, Ndlondlo, Saleng, Erasmus.

Subs: Mpontshane, Xoki, Mako, Makaringe, Makgaka, Dlamini, Makgopa, Lepasa, Peprah.

AmaZulu XI: Mothwa, Mphahlele, Hanamub, Sikhakhane, Mobara, Makhaula, Buchanan, Maluleka, Majoro, Maduna, Kwem.

Subs: Mzimela, Khumalo, Mabiliso, Malepe, Brooks, Kunene, Bwalya, Magaqa, Ndlovu.

Pirates last three games without scoring

October 1: v Sundows, 0-0 MTN8 semifinal first leg (home)

October 4: v Sekhukhune, lost 0-2 in the league (away)

October 8: v Bay, 0-0 in the league (home)

“It’s a crisis that Pirates have not scored a goal in their last three goals, especially because they have so many good strikers. I don’t know why the coach [Riveiro] plays with one striker… for me that’s the problem. The coach must start playing with two strikers. Erasmus and Lepasa must start games together,” Sebola told Sowetan yesterday.

“They’ve got Ndlondlo who can supply the strikers with those defence-splitting passes but one striker can’t do it alone. It’s the culture of the club to play with two strikers and this coach must know that. I believe this thing of playing one striker doesn’t work in South Africa.”

“Obviously AmaZulu are my former team and I left them recently, so it’s natural for me to be emotional when I play against them. The emotions are part of the game but I am focused on the job at hand which is to help my team win,” Xoki told Sowetan.

“I will be coming up against people who were my teammates a few months ago, so there’ll be emotions but I am ready to shake that off. Football is always about what’s in front of you at that moment…the past doesn’t really matter that much. I will only rekindle my relationship with AmaZulu after the game if need be.”

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“Football is a team sport. We haven’t been scoring as a team. We can’t say as defenders we don’t feel the pressure because we are a team. We are all responsible for this [the scoring problem]. As defenders we also miss chances in set-plays, so you can’t expect only our strikers to shoulder the responsibility of scoring. We also defend as a team because this is football,” Xoki insisted.

“We know we can fix this, starting against AmaZulu. We are not going to listen to the outside noise because that would mean we don’t know what we must do.”

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