PREMIER LEAGUE RESUMES
Kaizer Chiefs must pull together, says Gordinho
Kaizer Chiefs needed to "come together" and shoulder the blame collectively for some stuttering form before the team could click‚ said centreback Lorenzo Gordinho ahead of the resumption of the Premier Soccer League on Tuesday. Amakhosi return to action from the six-week break for Christmas and the Africa Cup of Nations against Free State Stars at FNB Stadium on Tuesday. Chiefs’ mini run of form at the end of 2016 only comprised two wins in succession‚ 3-2 at home over Polokwane City then 2-0 away against Lamontville Golden Arrows. But given the pressure coach Steve Komphela had been under and the fighting nature of the two wins‚ Gordinho believes they will constitute a turning point. He said a first win for Amakhosi in 2017 against Stars — who fired Giovanni Solinas as coach just before the break and appointed former Bloemfontein Celtic boss and Safa technical director Serame Letsoaka — could be crucial towards proving that point. "We realise that Stars have a new coach‚ so their a...
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