Kaizer Chiefs: Ntseki takes huge stance on Khune vs Petersen

Kaizer Chiefs head coach Molefi Ntseki is backing Brandon Petersen to come good. This, despite suggestions he’d be dropped for Itumeleng Khune this weekend.

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Ntseki backing Petersen at Kaizer Chiefs

Brandon Petersen’s status as the club’s number 1 goalkeeper has come under heavy scrutiny in recent weeks. The 28-year-old has made costly errors against TS Galaxy and Sundowns in recent defeats. Despite that, Ntseki is sticking by his former Ajax keeper.

“I think we have a very good technical team and goalkeeping department, with our mentor coach Rainer [Dinkelacker], and I think those were mental issues [for Petersen],” Ntseki said.

“Because when you look at his ability as a goalkeeper, he has done very well for the team, even in the past few games, but the concentration levels were a bit down, that’s how he made those mistakes.

“It’s not only him that made mistakes that led to us losing the game, I think it’s the whole team because, when you look at it, it’s a series of mistakes that led to him making the last mistake, which we normally look at to be his mistake.

“I think he has been in the game for some time now, as coaches, we need to be there for the players and this is what we’re doing to help him.

“I understand that mistakes like this will always be costly, but these are the mistakes that we have to eliminate in our game.”

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Ntseki remains diplomatic

Molefi Ntseki insists he won’t make any rash decisions. This, amid calls for club captain and former Bafana Bafana man Khune to be reinstated between the sticks.

“When it comes to Itumeleng Khune, something very important is that we have four goalkeepers and all of them are competing for the first position to be in the team,” he added.

“When one makes a mistake, you don’t just make changes without actually zooming into the problem and helping out, because you might make changes emotionally, and what if the next player makes the same mistake?

“So what is important here [is that] we are a professional team, and we are also treating our players as professionals.”

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