Who is Chiefs' best striker?

Last season, Kaizer Chiefs lacked a reliable goalscorer up front.

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Ranga Chivaviro’s acquisition did not work out, and former coach Nasreddine Nabi openly said that the club needs a natural goalscorer. Credit is due to the board and recruitment team as they signed not one, but four central strikers in the last transfer window. With Wandile Duba and Ashley Du Preez already on the books, it means that the current co-coaches have six different options to call upon. How have the strikers performed so far? Which one is set to win the race to be the first choice? How do co-coaches Cedric Kaze and Khalil Ben Youssef keep all of them involved and happy? Soccer Laduma investigates what is a nice problem to have.

Whilst the scoring troubles of Kaizer Chiefs last season are well known, it's important to remember the exact details of where they have come from. In 28 league matches last season, Amakhosi only scored 25 goals. Considering they had 58% possession on average per game, one would have expected their dominance to translate into putting the ball in the net.

The Nasreddine Nabi's side actually created 57 big chances last season, fifth most in the division. Yet, they failed to score in 10 of their 28 Betway Premiership fixtures. Even on the Expected Goals Metric - a stat to show how many goals a team should have scored Chiefs were averaging 1.58 xG per game last season, tied-third in the division with Sekhukhune United.

Basically, they could create chances, but there were some games where they couldn't score if their lives depended on it.

Why were four strikers signed?

Not many people would have predicted Chiefs to go out and recruit four new strikers. Perhaps two centre forwards would have been a safer guess.