Kaizer Chiefs missed out on the prospect to go high of the DStv Premiership standings once they have been shocked 2-1 by Chippa United on Saturday.
After the sport, coach Arthur Zwane successfully accused his gamers of complacency, which price them a end result that might have taken them – a minimum of quickly – to the highest of the log.
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Zwane was visibly pissed off after the sport as he pinpointed missed possibilities and a lack of character as key takeaways from the efficiency.
One of the gamers who was uncharacteristically out of kinds gave the impression to be Kgaogelo Sekgota, who was substituted for Khama Billiat as Zwane took a greater image view of what was wanted for the group.
“Look, if you watched the game properly, you will see that he (Sekgota) didn’t have a good game,” Zwane mentioned on the post-match press convention, as quoted by iDiski Times. “And it was key for us that if one of your key players is not doing well, at that moment, you don’t want him to get to a situation where his confidence is even down where he can’t even come back.
“We still need him for the next game, we still need him for when we will be playing a cup game, we’ll be here next week. And also trying to create a competition, he must know that if he doesn’t perform, then there’s another player on the bench. And I think Khama came on, and he did well. He created a number of chances.”
Chiefs have to place the frustration behind them and change focus to immediately redeeming themselves in Wednesday’s league assembly towards TS Galaxy at FNB stadium, earlier than taking up AmaZulu within the second leg of the MTN8 semi-final again in Durban.
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Chiefs boasted a whole of 13 makes an attempt on their opponents’ aim this previous weekend, 5 of them on course in comparison with Chippa United’s two, and but poor ending and execution as soon as once more price them dearly.
Afterwards, Zwane additionally hit out on the group for not coming into the sport with the proper focus.
“I think we won the game before we even started. You could see at the beginning of the game we were a bit sluggish and we thought it was going to be an easy game,” Zwane informed SuperSport TV.
“At halftime I had to be jack them (the players ) up a bit just to make them aware, because in the first half, even though we scored the goal, we didn’t dictate terms, we didn’t show character and we allowed them to do whatever they wanted to do.”
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Before Saturday’s end result, Chiefs had managed to attain a seven-game unbeaten streak in all competitions, whereas shifting as much as fourth on the PSL standings previous to kick off. Yet they may now be left to lament a actual missed alternative.
“We have ourselves to blame here. This is one game that could’ve helped us keep our confidence sky-high, but we let ourselves down big time and I hope we can learn from this,” Zwane added.
How Chiefs lined up on Saturday:
Chiefs XI: Petersen (1); Ngezana (30) Kwinika (4), Dove (2), Hlanti (23), Frosler (39), Blom (45), Maart (8) Matlou (22), Sekgota (14) Billiat (11), Dolly ©(10), Du Preez (9) Sithebe (6), Bimenyimana (28)
Subs: Bvuma (44), Solomons (18), Alexander (17), Zwane (37), Nk Ngcobo (12)
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