Arthur Zwane, the head coach of Kaizer Chiefs, claims that despite beginning with three centre-backs against Cape Town, his squad was unable to carry out his strategy.
Darwin Gonzalez gave City the lead early in the first half, and Nathan Idumba added a second goal shortly after the hour mark to secure the three points.After the opening goal, Zwane said the team was uneasy and was unable to regroup.
We definitely got off to a very sloppy, poor start.We actually had a plan for this; the only thing we didn’t do correctly, according to Zwane, was to carry it through.
We came with three defenders because we anticipated them wanting to drop the ball behind, allowing us to occupy those gaps with the wingbacks.
Because we were seated in the back and in a straight line, we gave them roughly four of those so they could confront their full-backs when they arrived.” We sort of had a warning before they scored, but the players couldn’t read it, so we gave up the goal too early in the game. When you give up the goal too early, you become uneasy and start chasing the game.” They set the terms, and suddenly it appeared as though we were back in the game, but the first half was just off for us. We returned in the second half with a different team, you know. We just missed out on a goal that may have allowed us to get back into the game.
We missed a few opportunities we generated, and we conceded from a dead-ball scenario once more, which is something you want to avoid because we know they’re going to play far post there because that’s how they generally play it. The third goal was inevitable when you’re chasing the game like that, but the players gave it their all despite the fact that we were unable to score and let two goals. We’ll take our lessons from this game and move on, then.