Kaizer Chiefs coach Gavin Hunt bemoaned his side’s poor defending after they twice had to come from behind to secure a 2-2 draw with Stellenbosch FC in the DStv Premiership on Tuesday.
The draw was probably a fair result, but Hunt was left frustrated by two soft goals conceded as the club went in search of a third win in succession.
"It's been a problem for us, our Achilles heel this season, that area of the pitch, it cost us again, so I’m disappointed," Hunt said.
"We were a little bit flat at times but we got into the game, the second goal took a little bit out of us, but all-in-all disappointed with the result because I thought you have got to be better than that.
"You have got to see the games out, but they obviously had a foothold in the game, they got the goal, we chase it and once we got it, we got to 2-1 and you think 'OK'.
"I mean, the second goal was really schoolboy, same position, bad defending, something that has cost us all season.
"You don't want a game against Stellenbosch to go from end to end because that suits them, you want to say a little bit compact and we start chasing it, then the game opens up and it suits them.
"Because they have got the type of strikers, the three of them like to play in half-space, the drop off and if you don't get tight, they bounce it, and then you are in trouble and then we chase.”
Hunt was pleased with the goals for Leonardo Castro and Nkosingiphile Ngcobo, but feels his side left some opportunities out there on the pitch.
"If you are striker, you have got to feel, you have got to sense it and you have got to be working across the ball, across the goal. We work at the goal.
“There's a big difference in what I'm saying and the whole night we're working away from the goal, you have got to work across it.
"And we didn't do it, but I thought we still had enough, we had good couple of opportunities in the first half that we didn't take.
“I’m very disappointed with the result because I think, it's a home game, we have got to try do what we have been doing in the last couple of weeks.
"But it's a different type of game because they are a different type of team, but as I said, you can study, analyse teams but every game is different and we need to play a little bit better … 100 times better.”
Chiefs are next in action away at Horoya in Guinea on Saturday, a game where they must get a score draw or a win to advance to the quarterfinals of the CAF Champions League.
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