Riveiro hints Pirates 'not that far off Sundowns' level'

“I can say that we are not that far [off Sundowns’ level]. I don’t think that the difference between these two teams is 23 points...it is [23 points ] that’s the reality but we can manage to compete, so it’s in our hands to keep this level of competitiveness week in week out, that’s the main thing we need to improve,” Riveiro said.

“We have to teach ourselves that if we put everything in place, we can compete with, I don’t want to say the best one because they [Sundowns] are not the champions this season on the continent, but one of the best, for sure nobody have doubts about it and we can compete with them. In the long run, we didn’t show that we can do it and that’s what we need to learn from these days [referring to Saturday].”