Kaizer Chiefs are on course for potentially their lowest points total at the halfway mark of the Premiership in 10 seasons unless they get a victory in their final match of the year at "home" to Ajax Cape Town in Durban on Saturday night. Even victory against the Urban Warriors would only bring them up to equal their previous worst mark in the past eight years. Victory over Ajax will take Chiefs to 22 points after 15 matches‚ with their lowest mark in the last 11 seasons just 18 points, which they set in the 2007-08 campaign under Muhsin Ertugral. They finished sixth that season with 43 points. Amakhosi managed 22 points at halfway in 2009-10 under the Serb Vladimir Vermezovic‚ but on that occasion managed to rally and finish third. Defeat to Ajax would leave Chiefs on 19 points‚ a little more than half the number of points they had secured at this stage the last time they won the Championship, in the 2014-15 campaign‚ when they had 37. Under former coach Stuart Baxter they improved...
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