Orlando Pirates coach Jose Riveiro believes the Buccaneers could have won by a margin of score if they used their chances efficiently against Marumo Gallants on Sunday.

Pirates beat Bahlabane Ba Ntwa 1-0 in the semi-final of the Nedbank Cup at Orlando Stadium on Sunday to book themselves a ticket to the final of the competition, thanks to Kabelo Dlamini’s great winning goal in the first half.

This was the second time the Buccaneers beat the Gallants this season, as they hammered them 8-1 in December last year in the Soweto venue.

Despite that Pirates won on Sunday, Riveiro said his club was supposed to win by more than two goals, not 1-0 because they created many chances but failed to convert them.

“Football is a scoring game; you score one more goal than your opponent, then you win; I think that’s good for you and it’s priority all the time in every game, not only now,” Riveiro said.

“The way you do it is your decision, and it depends on many factors of your quality. We have the quality and capacity I’m talking about, of which it’s playing more good football or more constancy during the 90 minutes.

“I think today [Sunday] we had good moments in the game, the goal is the proof of that, and I think it was a well-executed goal.

“We had clear chances in the second-half, and we were a little bit unlucky that we were not accurate in the last minute of the game, and we should be here talking about 3-0.”

Before this game, Pirates played two games against MC Alger and also a league game against Polokwane City, with the former seeing them reach the semi-finals of the CAF Champions League.

Riveiro admitted that this was a tough week for the Buccaneers, but they managed to go unscathed.

“It’s important to remember that we are coming from playing against Polokwane City seven days ago, and it was an away game. That was a very tough game, and midweek we played another tough game against MC Alger, then Sunday another tough game before the final,” he added.

“If you put those three games together, I think the performance of Orlando Pirates through those three games is excellent and it is second to none.

“Tough games, three different competitions in different objectives, with different resources, and imagine if we didn’t get the results in all those games we would be sitting here without objectives for the season.

“We managed to go through probably the toughest week of the season. But now it’s coming to be the same, every game we are going to play is going to be a final and the points are very expensive in the last games of the season because every team is fighting for something.

“So, we know it’s going to be difficult, we know the games are not going to be easy like in the early stages of the season. Right, we’ll be talking about a different story because there’s a lot of important things to play for.”

The Buccaneers will now face their neighbors, Kaizer Chiefs, in the final of the Nedbank Cup at Moses Mabhida Stadium on 10 May.

Amakhosi, on the other hand, won against Mamelodi Sundowns in the semifinal of this competition on Sunday as well.