Baroka coach Kgoloko Thobejane remains optimistic that his side will turn the corner after their winless run in the Absa Premiership was extended to six matches.

Bakgaga earned a last-minute draw with Orlando Pirates after goalkeeper Oscarine Masuluke scored an audacious bicycle kick during stoppage time at the Peter Mokaba Stadium on Wednesday.

Post-match the Bakgaga coach lamented his side’s many unconverted chances to take the lead and declared, not for the first time, that football could have fatal effects.

‘It can kill you this football,’ Thobejane said.

‘A hundred chances: Nothing. But that’s football at its best. It’s one of those games but we’ll make it one day. We owe these people a win in this stadium [Peter Mokaba].’

Thobejane then hailed Masuluke’s stunning overhead kick.

‘That was a moment of brilliance. A keeper with that kick, it’s good, it’s marvellous to watch, fantastic – what [more] can you say?’

Yet the coach is confident that Bakgaga will improve and start scoring.

‘Most of the time we are saying “Eish!” because these teams will get a simple, easy goal out of us but we can’t [let that happen] because we work for the goals and these teams they don’t work for the goals against us.

‘Our chance will come. One day Baroka will bounce back and we will convert all those chances that we are creating.’

Baroka will be hoping to do this when they take on Maritzburg United in the Absa Premiership on Sunday.

The match at the Peter Mokaba Stadium kicks off at 15:30.

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