Chiefs have been on the ropes before
The team has had poor runs before but coach says best days are coming
Kaizer Chiefs will extend their winless run to six games if they do not claim victory away against Cape Town City on Saturday‚ but fans of the ailing Soweto giants have endured this pain before in recent times. Chiefs have made a difficult start to the new campaign under coach Giovanni Solinas‚ with just one win in eight matches and none in their past five. Confirmation from chair Kaizer Motaung last week that the Italian was by no means the club’s first choice and that they had rather hoped to bring in their former boss Stuart Baxter, or at least two other tacticians instead‚ will not fill Chiefs fans with much confidence either. But this poor run is nothing new for a side battling to restore former glories and they have had worse periods three times in the past two years. Chiefs went seven games without a win between March and April 2016‚ part of a run that included just a single victory (against University of Pretoria) in 12 games. Worse was to follow the following season when th...
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