Orlando Pirates co-coach Fadlu Davids felt his side dominated from start to finish, despite their defeat to Kaizer Chiefs on Saturday.

The Buccaneers failed to walk away with a single point in the Soweto derby after they fell to a 2-1 defeat at the hands of arch-rivals Amakhosi at the FNB Stadium.

The defeat sees Pirates dropped down to seventh place in the DStv Premiership standings with 14 points, while Chiefs are a point above them in fifth place after 10 games.

“In our position, Stuart Baxter comes to us and apologises for the penalty, saying that maybe we should’ve got a penalty in the first-half and Dzvukamanja late on then you know the story,” Davids told SuperSport TV after the match.

“I think total dominance from the first-half to the end of the match. We said to players at half-time, ‘With the dominance you have to score!’ and that has been our Achilles heel at the moment.

“On top of that gifting opposition goals, if you look at it, gifting them the first goal, the second goal if it’s a penalty it’s questionable. But really total dominance from start to finish, proud of the players in that regard but ja we can’t give opponents goals,” he said.

“In the first-half it was just us not scoring the goals, the subs yes made an impact but they gave the cherry on top. The best team lost today, it’s clear, really proud of the players in terms of how they performed but we have to score, when we have that dominance, when we’re on top.

“Even in the end we got the equaliser, we were the only team going to get the winner but unfortunate with what happened in the end, Billiat slipping, it’s something… [I don’t want to get into].”