Cape Town City coach Eric Tinkler is wary of Kaizer Chiefs ahead of their encounter on Saturday afternoon.
The Citizens have not won a league match since the end of December and will look to change that at the Athlone Stadium.
A win against Kaizer Chiefs can take Tinkler’s men to second position in the DStve Premiership table.
Speaking ahead of the match, the former Bafana Bafana midfielder said his team needed to end their winless run.
“The world of sport … you can have three draws and then you lose and people say, ‘you haven’t won in four games’. Or you win, and it is ‘you haven’t lost in four games’.
“That is how quickly football can change and the way the media interpret things. It is important for us to get back to winning ways and no better team to do it against than Kaizer Chiefs,” Tinkler said.
“They are a different team to the one we played at the beginning of the season and it is not going to be easy, it will be tough.”
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Tinkler’s side were victorious when the side met back in October last year. At the time, Molefi Ntseki was still at the helm but was sacked later that month.
The former SuperSport United believes Amakhosi are dangerous under interim coach Cavin Johnson.
“They are still a team that is extremely dangerous on the counterattack,” Tinkler said on Kaizer Chiefs.
“They have a lot of speed up front and they try to utilize that. But there are areas of their game where they still have issues. We have to look to exploit those. But the threat up front is a massive one.
At the start of the season, they were looking to play more counterattack football, but now they look to play through the phases and are a team that can also go pretty direct with balls in behind. We have to make sure we deal with that,” he told SuperSport.
Tinkler has a good record against Kaizer Chiefs having only lost once in over 10 meetings.
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