Kaizer Chiefs latest | Legend highlights Amakhosi’s defensive problems

Kaizer Chiefs legend Jacob Tshisevhe has given his assessment of why the club is struggling defensively this season.

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According to Tshisevhe, the current Chiefs defence lacks determination – and that’s of the reasons there have been so many mistakes at the back.

Chiefs are the third-worst defending team in the league (7 goals conceded) behind Golden Arrows (9) and TS Galaxy (10) after five rounds of matches.

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“I don’t want to compare players who played at Chiefs before and those playing now but what I have realized is (lack of) determination,” Tshisevhe told FARPost.

“You need to have determination; you need to learn every day. You need to stabilize and you need to work as a team.

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“If you don’t work as a team, automatically, you are going to make mistakes each and every game,” he said.

Tshisevhe was speaking after featuring in the annual Mabena soccer tournament at Ha-Mashamba in Limpopo.

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And he felt the legends at the tournament marshaled the defence better than what the Chiefs back four is doing right now.

“You could see when we were playing here, we are legends but we can marshal the defence and that is what is lacking at Chiefs,” added Tshisevhe.

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“If you want to become a better defender you must always make sure that you see a player and then you see the ball as well,” he explained.

The Chiefs defence has often allowed balls to be played behind them and, therefore, leaving their goalkeepers exposed.

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And Tshisevhe feels this is one of the areas the Amakhosi defence should improve on to avoid conceding a lot of goals going forward.

“If you allow a lot of balls to go behind you that’s when you will have problems. This is what is happening at Kaizer Chiefs.

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“If they can just try to manage how to play, how to mark, when to defend, when to close the space, I think they can become better a defence,” added Tshisevhe.