Chiefs progress to group stage but striking woes persist

KAIZER Chiefs’ 3-1 defeat of AS Simba here yesterday afternoon would suggest Amakhosi have finally sorted out their scoring woes.

- MATSHELANE MAMABOLO

KAIZER Chiefs player Nkosingiphile Ngcobo challenges AS Simba player Jonathan Kinkela during their second leg of the CAF Confederation Cup second-round preliminary encounter at the Dobsonville Stadium in Soweto yesterday.

(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.