Patrick Maswanganyi opened the scoring from the penalty spot on the half hour mark forward of a Nduduzo Sibiya equaliser on the stroke of half time, additionally from the penalty spot.

However Karim Kimvuidi netted on 56 minutes to safe all three factors for the away staff.

The consequence noticed the Buccaneers finish the afternoon in third place on the league standings with 25 factors from 14 video games and Arrows down in seventh with 20 factors.

Pirates began on the entrance foot with Kimvuidi attempting his luck with a shot from huge early on that was comfortably saved by Arrows stopper Sifiso Mlungwana.

Deon Hotto then fired a free-kick off course as Ndabayithethwa Ndlondlo smashed his long-range shot simply huge.

Maswanganyi ought to have carried out higher together with his effort on quarter-hour however he made no mistake from the spot quarter-hour later as he powered dwelling into the underside right-hand nook of the Arrows web.

The house aspect’s first finest probability got here by way of Tebogo Tlolane however he didn’t hold his shot down.

However Arrows have been on degree phrases when Sibiya buried his spot-kick simply earlier than the interval.

Each side had probabilities to take the lead at the beginning of the second interval, however Ndlondlo was wayward for Bucs earlier than Maswanganyi noticed his goal-bound shot blocked en path to objective.

However Kimvuidi was completely place to fireplace dwelling shortly after with an unstoppable shot into the highest of the Arrows web.

Arrows tried in useless to get again into the tie, with Nhlanhla Zwane coming as shut as anybody to a late objective.

A raft of substitutions disrupted the movement for the house staff and Pirates have been capable of safe a 3rd successive DStv Premiership win.