NEWS: ‘The points will be more expensive this season’ – Orlando Pirates’ Jose Riveiro hopes for a more intense 2024/25 title race

“We need to compete for each and every competition that we are involved in and we need to prove why we are there.

“It is the third time that we are trying to go to the league title. It has been the same but Sundowns did it much better than everyone else and that is why we found ourselves in the second position.

“This season we want to have a good start, it is going to be important because in the last two seasons, we were not at the level that we should be at this stage. Right now we are doing well in the two competitions, we want to participate in the league with the same intensity,”

“We are going to try and improve our football because it is a way that we trust will take us to that place where we want to be. It is going to be a difficult task and a difficult season but I hope that it is going to be much more equal with much more teams involved and I have the feeling that this season the points will be much more expensive,” Riveiro said.

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Last season, the Buccaneers finished 23 points behind Sundowns and won just under 50% of their matches. Downs, meanwhile Downs won about 73% of games played out of 30 matches. This time around, Riveiro is optimistic that they can improve their numbers.

“Our intention is to focus on the 30 games and make sure that we collect points more frequently than the last two seasons.

“But I can see more than five teams doing well already and it is going to be a good thing for the fans and I hope we can find ourselves with three or four teams fighting for the title and it will make everything much more intense and much more attractive,” Riveiro said.