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00:30there.
00:36Nice flick on there an opportunity opening up here for
00:40the Pirates. And there's the opening goal five minutes in
00:43Orlando take the lead a simple ball over the top just cut the
00:47home defense to pieces there.
01:00Well, the home fans.
01:02Greeting that opening goal with a deafening silence.
01:07Simple ball over the top a bit of pace in behind maybe a
01:10fortunate first.
01:13Good flick on here.
01:13Then that second touch that I think that was on purpose, but
01:16the ball
01:17perfectly into the run of Mahal and Kota.
01:23And his first appearance in the Champions League five minutes
01:27and he's got his first goal.
01:30And that just what this game needs as well.
01:38Finding that gap between the two central defenders.
01:42A nice turn out of trouble that
01:45from Sassane.
01:46But now they play themselves back into trouble opportunity
01:48knocks here for Brlithdat.
01:50Well, the ball still not cleared into the back post and
01:53there was just no run made.
01:55Coming forwards trying to apply
01:58pressure here.
02:00Boussouf.
02:01Ball whipped in.
02:02Oh, it's fallen nicely for Bengui and there's the
02:05double save by the keeper.
02:07The initial shot deflected.
02:10Hamdi, Hamdi's cross
02:13by the head of Alexandra Abel and she be shot off target.
02:31And now looking for the space to get the shot in but closed
02:33down by the Sagrada Esperanza defenders.
02:38Pirates
02:39looking fluid
02:40coming forwards once again.
02:43Well for Keng over over there
02:45the ball crossed in.
02:46Oh,
02:47he's opened up here and then the shot just
02:49chipped over the bar.
02:52Kota
02:53shoots from distance and that's a second of the game.
02:56What a hit.
02:57What a hit from the 20-year-old
03:01playing in his first Champions League match today.
03:0427 minutes in and he's already scored twice and what a stunner
03:07that is.
03:08He picked the ball up 25 meters out
03:11and just smashed it into the top corner.
03:15Nothing Mustafa Zegba could do about that.
03:20What a start for Orlando Pirates.
03:2225 meters out, smashed it.
03:25Yeah, no one's stopping that.
03:26Well, we nearly got a fingertip on it, didn't he?
03:29Zegba.
03:31But what a hit.
03:35Pure strike.
03:39And the 20-year-old now,
03:41well, he's already looking for a hat-trick
03:43and he could have had a hat-trick actually as well.
03:45He
03:46for Burlisdat
03:49Slimani
03:50and he's got it.
03:52Slimani.
03:56Towering over his opponents, trying to make a nuisance of
03:58himself here.
04:02Hussein Benyada
04:03is going to swing this one in right-footed.
04:05Oh, and Slimani just beat into it and then on the second
04:07effort
04:10this lifts it over the bar.
04:11Islam Slimani takes a knock on the shin.
04:14Selmy,
04:15poor ball out from defense and now
04:17Orlando
04:19back on the attack again and there are plenty of numbers up
04:21here for the Buccaneers.
04:24Oh, nice running there and the ball cut back in
04:26and then the deflection on the shot goes wide and it goes out
04:29for a goal kick.
04:29In fact,
04:31that's when Gagni down in the area.
04:33As Burlisdat
04:34try and get something together here before the break and
04:37that's an important header at the near post.
04:39The ball eventually coming to Selmy and then it's clawed away
04:42at the near post
04:44with Slimani
04:45possibly getting in the way anyway.
04:49Whipped into the near post, Slimani couldn't react in time
04:52to the knockdown.
04:54And that
04:55is that for the first half here in Algiers.
05:02And it's the Orlando Pirates very much in the box seat here
05:06at halftime.
05:07Knockout stages for finishing top two in the group pretty
05:10much.
05:15So back underway then.
05:16Orlando Pirates kicking from right to left in this
05:20second half in their predominantly black strip here.
05:28And Burlisdat, the Reds.
05:31Somewhat unsurprisingly playing all in red here.
05:35That ball nicely brought down
05:37in defense, passed over there to Sebisi
05:40and Selmy
05:43looking for the runner in behind. Picked up the ball.
05:46Picked up by Islam Slimani when he's got support here and
05:49then it's been shanked high and wide by Kanyisa Mayo.
05:54First time we've really seen him get into a forward position
05:56there.
05:57He's been
05:59now an opportunity on the counter-attack.
06:03Well, surely that's offside and the flag does go up.
06:07Well,
06:08Mizian
06:09ran into an offside position there
06:12and really
06:14huge amount of noise and light.
06:17Oh, flicked across at the near post and the keeper very happy
06:21to
06:22just collapse onto that one.
06:30Burlisdat
06:31surging forward again.
06:33The ball cut back across the area and then the shot goes
06:35only just wide and the keeper was nowhere.
06:41There's a substitute again, Eamon Mahias.
06:43Yet more pressure being invited in. Mahias making a real nuisance
06:47of himself since coming on and there is one back.
06:52And it's the South African, I think. Kanyisa Mayo.
06:59Well, it had been coming.
07:10Kanyisa Mayo.
07:13With his first goal of the Champions League campaign.
07:17He certainly looked lively since coming on the corners.
07:20This time taken short, whipped in four red shirts lining up
07:24for it there.
07:26Well, there'll be some
07:28discussion about the lack of defending there from the Orlando
07:31Pirates.
07:32You can't let four players like that just group together
07:35and there was no one with them.
07:38Dion Hurto was the closest Namibian wide player, but he
07:42wasn't tall enough to get in there.
07:44Controlled by Mayo.
07:46Plenty of red shirts coming forwards again for this one.
07:48Ball flicked in across at the near post.
07:51Kept in play.
07:51Yes, it had.
07:52No, it hasn't.
07:55Ball over to this near side where there's a bit of a
07:57numbers game being played.
07:59Mahias nods the ball down for Slimani and it just
08:02takes the deflection and goes over.
08:04That will be
08:06a Burlisdat corner.
08:08So they've absolutely bossed the second half, but they're
08:10already 2-0 down at the break.
08:11So
08:13difficult to get something out of the game, Mahias.
08:18Well, it's taken down just after the ball.
08:21Lacrosse came in.
08:29You've seen all sorts of shenanigans with the
08:35with the foam
08:36in the last few years and ball comes in and there was again
08:39queuing up the red shirts on the edge of the six-yard box.
08:43Not well defended at all by Orlando.
08:46Looked for a moment there like there was an offside on that
08:47left-hand side, but
08:50obviously not.
08:51Nice measured ball in and then the header from Mahias goes
08:54wide.
08:56The referee
08:57looked like he was about to blow his whistle there for a
08:59free kick for dangerous play, but
09:01decided against it.
09:04Nothing given there by the referee.
09:06That's going to be a yellow card for a dive here.
09:09And
09:11Neiman Mahias
09:13furious, his teammates furious as well.
09:15They've got to be careful of getting booked as well.
09:19Scrabbles it out.
09:20We're into the seventh minute of six added on at the end of
09:22this second half now.
09:25All slick into play here.
09:26Opportunity knocks and the shot goes just wide of the
09:28upright and Slimani couldn't get in there
09:31to try and slide it in at the back post either.
09:39And indeed that is an exciting game here
09:42at the Stade de Saint-Geraint in Algiers and it's finished
09:46with three points
09:47for the Orlando Pirates on their return
09:50to Africa's top tier of competition for the first time
09:52in five years.