{"id":56575,"date":"2026-04-19T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=56575"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:34:12","slug":"2026-04-19-bucs-coach-ouaddou-hails-amazulu-win-as-confidence-booster-before-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/04\/19\/2026-04-19-bucs-coach-ouaddou-hails-amazulu-win-as-confidence-booster-before-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs coach Ouaddou hails AmaZulu win as confidence booster before derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Orlando Pirates coach Abdeslam Ouaddou has hailed Saturday\u2019s 3-0 victory over AmaZulu as a morale booster ahead of next Sunday\u2019s Soweto derby, albeit feeling they could have easily won 7-0 at Orlando Amstel Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pirates\u2019 next fixture is against their Soweto traditional foes, Kaizer Chiefs, who they drubbed 3-0 in the first round in February, at FNB Stadium next Sunday (3pm).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Yanela Mbuthuma, Oswin Appollis and Relebohile Mofokeng were on target for title-chasing Pirates. Mofokeng, who has now scored 10 league goals this season, also missed a penalty in the 75th minute. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The win saw Bucs go two points clear at the top of the table with second-placed Mamelodi Sundowns boasting two games in hand as they have been involved in the CAF Champions League, where they have reached the final for the second season running.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI am very happy for the boys, but again to be honest, it\u2019s a game that could have finished with a 7-0 scoreline, definitely! So we have to keep going. I think it was a good afternoon for us just before the derby. It [thumping AmaZulu] gives a lot of confidence to the boys,\u201d Ouaddou said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bucs\u2019 clean sheet against Usuthu was their goalkeeper Sipho Chaine\u2019s 17th in the league this season, equalling the club\u2019s record for clean sheets by a goalkeeper set by Moeneeb Josephs in the 2009\/10 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pirates have now scored 50 goals in the Betway Premiership this season, meaning they are three goals away from breaking their record of most league goals in a 30-game era, set in the 2004\/05 season, where they found the back of the net 52 times under coach Kostadin Papic. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"c-divider\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Bucs #coach #Ouaddou #hails #AmaZulu #win #confidence #booster #derby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando Pirates coach Abdeslam Ouaddou has hailed Saturday\u2019s 3-0 victory over AmaZulu as a morale booster ahead of next Sunday\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56577,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56575\/revisions\/56577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}