Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20180913151539/@comment-25122992-20180915152837

Yamato and others aren't even supposed to corner Orochimaru to begin with. They are just guards after all, a surveillance, to simply put it. It's obvious that in case of a serious threat coming from Orochimaru they won't be able to stop him by themselves, but they wlll be enough to send a word to Konoha so that Naruto and ko could react properly.