Kaizer Chiefs suffered their second 4-0 loss of the season on Tuesday night, as they were defeated by AmaZulu at the Moses Mabhida Stadium.
The Soweto giants had a night to forget in Durban, as they were punished for their costly errors in defence. Chiefs head coach Arthur Zwane bemoaned the mistakes his side made throughout the game, and highlighted the missed penalty in the first half as a key moment in the match.
“I think if you look at the game we played last week and you look at the way we played today… I think we put them on the back foot, early in the game, maybe here and there poor decision-making in the final third, then we conceded,” Zwane told SuperSport TV.
He added, “Just after conceding from a dead-ball situation I believe we could have defended better and then we got a penalty. I think had we converted that penalty it would have been a different ball game altogether. But after that again we conceded from a dead-ball situation, then the mistake and unfortunately whenever we make mistakes we get punished and when the opposition makes mistakes we don’t take them you know, we don’t bury the chances.”
AmaZulu beat Kaizer Chiefs 4-0 tonight.
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Zwane praised his players for their effort, noting that they had several chances to get back into the game, but were ultimately unable to take advantage. “It’s one of those days that I’ll like to forget more especially for the players because I think they tried their level best. Several times ‘Mshini’ (Nkosingiphile Ngcobo) could have scored, (Wandile) Duba should have scored and I believe (Edmilson) Dove as well,” he said.
The coach concluded by saying, “So wasn’t just our day and the performance wasn’t that bad to be quiet honest. We were in control of the game, obviously when we were chasing the game we lost a little bit of structure but we still looked like scoring at any given time, though wee knew that they will now sit back, wait for us come and hit us on a counter-attack. So it’s one of those, we can learn from it. We learned the hard way today.”
