Orlando Pirates coach Milutin Sredojevic has revealed that he remains focused on his own side and does not want to enter into a war of words with Mamelodi Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane.

The Buccaneers have been hot on the heels of the Brazilians in recent weeks but last night’s 0-0 draw against SuperSport United undoubtedly put a dent in their title aspirations.

The Serbian coach has been quick to downplay suggestions that his team are title challengers all season long and chose to continue that narrative after the game on Wednesday evening.

Micho also revealed that he will not be drawn into a war of words with Mosimane, but would rather focus on his own team, ‘I have been happy with my brother Pitso, we have watched the game the other day [together].

‘First of all, I have the highest degree of respect to this country, culture, tradition, style of life, habit and everything. As a foreigner, I’m here technically to help together with our technical team to rebuild and bring the stability at Pirates and we are doing that.

‘I don’t have a right to think about other things. If I think about mind games and whatever we shall lose focus on this. Our focus is on our performance, in our build-ups, if we succeed in how we attack, if we fail in how we defend. And I have been satisfied except that football didn’t pay us back, what we did against SuperSport.

‘We are looking at ourselves, we are not thinking about anyone else except ourselves and we are focusing on Sunday’s game now. We are only thinking about AmaZulu. We are not thinking about anything else. We don’t want to enter into exchanges through the media or whatever.

‘We are in the process of returning the team where it is supposed to be all the time and to keep it there because we had an unfortunate period of a few seasons not in the top three, that we have not won trophies since 2014. So, we are rebuilding that process and we have brought stability.’

Pirates are currently three points behind Sundowns, sitting second on the log with 46 points from 26 matches. Downs have a game in hand which will be played on Saturday night against outgoing champions Bidvest Wits.