5 Issues Chiefs Need To Solve To Challenge For Betway Prem

Khalil Ben Youseff of Kaizer Chiefs Football Club during a Betway Premiership match. Photo: Gallo Images/Dirk Kotze

With Kaizer Chiefs back preparing for the resumption of the Betway Premiership, Soccer Laduma looks at five issues they need to solve to revive the title-contender tag.

Conversion rate

After statistics showed that Kaizer Chiefs were the best attacking team, apart from scoring goals, having created the most number of chances, having the most shots on target, and the most touches in the opposition box, in the first round of the season, the focus would be on scoring more goals when the league resumes.

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Amakhosi averages one goal per game in the league (13 goals in 13 matches), which is not good enough to become a title-contender.

Preferred starting line-up

Every winning team knows how important it is to be consistent with the line-up, but The Glamour Boys have been chopping and changing their team, with their back-line the only consistent department, hence they have conceded the second least number of goals.

Halfway through the season, Amakhosi have yet to determine their starting striking combinations and which attackers are sure starters on either wing and in the number ten positions.

Style of play

Former Kaizer Chiefs head coach Nasreddine Nabi could not build an identity for the Soweto giants, a style of play they could be identified by, and co-coaches Khalil Ben Youssef and Cedric Kaze are also yet to find a way of playing they can be known for.

For a club as big as Amakhosi, it should be clear by now whether they are a ball-playing team or a counter-attacking side.

Midfield combinations

Chiefs started the season with the combination of Sibongiseni Mthethwa and Thabo Cele as their main feature. But Cele was used off the bench often in the latter stages of the first round, with Lebohang Maboe coming to the fore.

Siphesihle Ndlovu is yet to impress since his signing, with the likes of Nkosingiphile Ngcobo and George Matlou yet to come of age.

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Consecutive wins

Since winning three games in a row at the start of the season, The Glamour Boys are yet to at least repeat the same feat, finishing the campaign with back-to-back goalless draws.

For Amakhosi to revive a title-contender tag, they need to win matches consecutively. The only other time Chiefs won two league matches in a row was back-to-back victories over Durban City and Orbit College between October and November.

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