Josef Zinnbauer happy with big, quality Pirates squad

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Despite battling to beat Cape Town City with four new signings in the squad, the coach believes Bucs have good players

Orlando Pirates coach Josef Zinnbauer addresses the media at Rand Stadium in Johannesburg, January 13 2020. Picture: GALLO IMAGES/ SYDNEY SESHIBEDI

Bucs laboured for much of the game against a team playing with 10 men for an hour after Fagrie Lakay’s 33rd-minute dismissal. But with a largely new combination‚ and Zinnbauer having said before the game his signings were at different levels of conditioning‚ and just a two-week preseason‚ Bucs still showed a lot of potential.

“And this season we have a lot of games. You can see the players we had coming as new signings don’t have the conditioning that we had.

 

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