Coach Solinas at a loss to explain Chiefs’ Telkom TKO defeat
Embattled Italian Giovanni Solinas struggled to find the right words to express his emotions after his ailing Kaizer Chiefs side succumbed to a third defeat this year to Orlando Pirates at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in an exciting Telkom TKO semifinal on Saturday. The distraught Solinas took almost 30 seconds to compose himself after Justin Shonga’s 84th minute goal saw Pirates march into the TKO final after a 2-1 win. “I feel pain‚” were the first words he uttered. The word pain was to be Solinas’s rallying expression as he tried to justify why Chiefs did not deserve to lose. “We lost the derby again but we tried to fight to the last seconds and we created two chances towards the end of the game. We were unlucky not to score and sometimes football is about taking chances. If we had scored the last chance maybe we could have won it in the extra time or penalties.” Solinas vowed to continue fighting for Chiefs‚ adding that he was working to fix Amakhosi’s problems. “I work hard‚ I wor...
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