Orlando Pirates head coach Milutin Sredojevic felt his side didn’t deserve to lose their Absa Premiership clash against Free State Stars on Saturday.

A late strike by Sinethemba Jantjie condemned the Buccanneers to their third loss of the campaign; however, coach Sredojevic believes his side didn’t get what they deserved.

‘In a game of football you have one easy thing and one difficult thing,’ he said in post-match comments.

‘The hard thing is to dominate, to possess and attack against the numbers and to look to get results. The easiest is to defend in numbers against the run of play to get [the results].

‘We have played competitively since August, absolute domination. We conceded an unlucky own goal [tonight] and I believe the second goal was a foul on the goalkeeper but it is not for me to judge, mine is to look at important facts.

‘We are a work-in-progress and we have succeeded in teaching them [the team] how to play football. We have shown that we know how to play football but the only problem is to [differentiate] how to play football and how to get results.

‘It’s a process to be result-oriented. We are not in a beauty contest. We are here for the results and this is what counts.

‘We didn’t deserve to lose today. Unfortunately football is like this, it’s not what you deserve but what you get. We got nothing but we deserve more than what we got,’ he concluded.

Photo: Sydney Mahlangu/BackpagePix