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Muhsin Ertugral was pleased to start his tenure as Orlando Pirates coach with a 3-1 win over Golden Arrows but insists his side are far from the finished article.

Pirates dispatched Arrows in their league opener courtesy of a Tendai Ndoro hat-trick at Orlando Stadium on Wednesday night.

Ertugral said: “We wanted that [win] but we have a lot of work to do. I must say that it is a marvelous team to work with, it is one of the best teams I’ve worked with in my career. We have wonderful individual players but there are a lot of other patterns we need to look into, there are a lot of elements we need to look into. As much as we played brilliant football in the second half – technically, tactically we did everything better – but there’s a long way to go. We need to be a little more patient with the team, there is a lot of potential in this team and I think we will go a long way.”

The former Mpumalanga Black Aces tactician continued: “We have great players, fantastic individual players but we need to find a team. We need to know when we lose the ball what to do, we need to know when to pressurize so there are a lot of elements and a new pattern for the boys but I must say the way these boys are taking it I enjoy every training session.

“I was a bit surprised at the beginning of the season when we had the Carling Cup and it was very clear that we had a long way to go but we knew what we were going to do and I kept quiet and worked behind the scenes and I must say thank you to the management and mr Khoza who has given us a lot of support about what the techincal side wanted to do. We have a fantastic technical squad behind the scenes who are great to work with.”

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