Pirates missed the chance to end their wait for silverware after they were beaten by Baroka FC, who secured the first-ever Telkom Knockout title via a penalty shoot-out win.
Cape Town — Orlando Pirates missed the chance to end their wait for
silverware after they were beaten by Baroka FC, who secured the first-ever
Telkom Knockout title via a penalty shoot-out win.
Thembinkosi Lorch should have opened the scoring for Bucs in
the sixth minute after a terrible back-pass sent him through one-on-one with
Elvis Chipezeze but he fired straight at the Zimbabwean shot-stopper, according to SoccerLaduma website .
The Soweto giants were on the front foot after a quarter of
an hour, but Baroka were solid at the back clearing their lines well.
Vincent Pule almost found the breakthrough for Milutin
Sredojevic’s troops in the 33rd minute with a curling strike from the edge of
the box that was searching for the top corner but missed wide and over the bar.
