Chiefs progress to group stage but woes persist

KAIZER CHIEFS' 3-1 defeat of AS Simba here on Sunday afternoon would suggest Amakhosi have finally sorted out their scoring woes.

- MATSHELANE MAMABOLO

KAIZER Chiefs player Nkosingiphile Ngcobo challenges AS Simba player Jonathan Kinkela. I ITUMELENG ENGLISH Independent Newspapers

Yet, as their fans gleefully celebrated the club's passage into the CAF Confederation Cup group stage, the sobering fact is that the club remains wasteful in the final third.

This match should have been won by more than a handful of goals, and the fact that Chiefs failed to find the opposition net in a second half characterised by a plethora of attacking changes should tell co-coaches Ceric Kaze and Ben Youssef Khalil that much still has to be done.

Granted, the progression to the round-robin phase has to be celebrated, and the capacity crowd in this compact Soweto arena duly did so, breaking into song and flag-waving at the final whistle. But against much stronger opposition in the money-spinning mini-league, the profligacy on show here is not going to cut the mustard.