Orlando Pirates coach Jose Riveiro is keen on winning all the remaining crucial matches in his bid to end his Buccaneers career on a high.
The Spaniard is set to leave the Soweto giants after the ongoing 2024/25 campaign concludes in the next two months. The Buccaneers are hopeful in their race to topple Mamelodi Sundowns from the Premier Soccer league summit.
The Sea Robbers have also set a date with Kaizer Chiefs in the Nedbank Cup's Soweto Derby final scheduled for May 10, but before that, they have a date with Egyptian outfit Pyramids FC in a two-legged Caf Champions League semi-final fixture.
Riveiro insists there is no room for complacency and that his team has to go all the way to deliver across all competitions.
‘You win or you go home'
“We are not competing in a league where you can say, no one point here is fine we know that we cannot afford to lose any game if we want to really compete with the current champions,” the tactician told the media.
“In the knockout games, it is the same story. You win, or you go home. So that’s for me the most important thing. We try to approach each and every game with the intention to win, even yesterday, although we have a little bit of an advantage coming from the second game.
“Our intention was to win the match. We don’t change our mentality, and whatever is coming we try to face the game with the same intention, and that’s the way.
“I don’t know how to say the way we handle it. We don’t have any other option, right? We cannot just stop we have to go again and again. And the moment that you shine in a club like Pirates, and you decide the season that you want to fight for every competition then you have to be consequent with that, and we don’t complain,” Riveiro concluded.
