Orlando Pirates head coach Abdeslam Ouaddou says his side will ‘fight until the last season’ after their win against Stellenbosch FC.

The Buccaneers returned to winning ways in the Betway Premiership following their 2-0 victory over the Maroons on Tuesday evening.

Goals from Evidence Makgopa and Patrick Maswanganyi saw Pirates walk away with the win and all three points at Athlone Stadium.

The win sees Pirates close the gap on log leaders Mamelodi Sundowns to two points, with 62 points from 27 matches.

“We had the game we expected, we know it’s never easy to come to play Stellenbosch, you know when you play the teams of Gavin Hunt. Gavin Hunt is an experienced coach. I don’t have to tell you about his experience,” Ouaddou told SuperSport after the game.

“We started the game like we wanted, very well organised, but with the high intensity, we knew that here we had to answer to the critical duels to the intensity, direct balls. I think we were efficient in the set-pieces in the first half.

“We made some tactical adjustments in order to have this control in the second half because I thought that to keep the score or to win, we need more control. I don’t think we had this control in the second half, but it’s normal I think the opponent was pushing to comeback to equalise but it’s a fantastic result.

“It led us in the title race, the guys were very brave, I’m very proud of them. I’m very proud to be the coach of these boys, today we saw real warriors and players that clearly gave an answer we still here and we’re going to fight until the last second.”