Kaizer Chiefs captain Itumeleng Khune has defended the constant changes to the club’s centreback partnerships made by coach Giovanni Solinas. In the post-mortems of Chiefs’ 2-1 Premiership Soweto derby defeat against Orlando Pirates on Saturday, two questionable decisions by Solinas have raised eyebrows. One was to seemingly rush Leonardo Castro back at centreforward‚ who started the game brightly but quickly faded. Another was to field Mario Booysen ahead of far more ex p e r ie nce d and more reliable Daniel Cardoso at centreback next to Siyabonga Ngezana. Chiefs’ loss against Pirates was their fourth match without a win in normal time. In those games‚ Solinas has chopped and changed centreback partnerships alarmingly‚ not playing the same two in succession. He retained Cardoso and Ngezana from a 2-0 win against AmaZulu for a 0-0 draw against Highlands Park; had Ngezana and Booysen in a 1-0 defeat against Polokwane City‚ Booysen and Mulomowandau Mathoho in the Telkom Knockout pena...
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