Kaizer Chiefs’ young star Mduduzi Shabalala has a hunger for goals after netting the winner against SuperSport United recently.
Kaizer Chiefs star hungry for goals
Shabalala takes confidence from that performance.
He credits the match with bolstering his confidence.
“It’s a great feeling. because I have been desperately wanting to score goals to help the team. It has really boosted my confidence and increased my hunger to score more goals,” he told www.kaizerchiefs.com.
Shabalala expects a tough examination in their next outing against Sundowns.
He says that the Glamour Boys don’t want to be the ones who hand the Brazilians the title.
“It’s always a tough match. Everybody knows that they are log leaders at the moment, but it’s really all about us.
“We are going to have to execute our game plan, and when we get opportunities, we have to be clinical. We want to stop them from winning the league in ‘our house’,” the 20-year-old stated.
Confederations Cup carrot
Kaizer Chiefs are out to qualify for continental competition even if they have already missed out on the Champions League.
“In the last five games this season we are still looking to qualify for a CAF spot,” he says, “Our aim is to get back to where we belong as Kaizer Chiefs, at the top.”
“I would love to see a lot of our fans come out to support us for this big game on Thursday,” Shabalala continued.
“It helps us a lot when they are giving us encouragement. They want the best for us and we want to make them happy and proud of us.”
Meanwhile, Sundowns boss Rhulani Mokwena has nothing but respect for Kaizer Chiefs.
“Chiefs is Chiefs, we all know Chiefs is Chiefs, at any day they can turn up, how I look at it? They are a big club and they deserve incredible respect, I already told you about my respect towards the Chairman,” Mokwena told iDiski Times.
“They have a good coach, and I know him personally because I learnt a lot from him, that’s how I look at it.
He also said: “They have some very good players and they have a team that is capable of beating anybody. I have no doubt they will make the top eight, no doubt in my mind.”
Kaizer Chiefs missing half a dozen players
Chiefs have as many as six players ruled out for the clash on Thursday.
TT [Ditlhokwe] hasn’t played, he’s ready but he hasn’t played a game of 45 minutes or for an hour as yet but yeah we know Dove is suspended because of four yellow cards. We gonna see how we fix our defence structure up,” Coach Cavin Johnson said according to FARPost.
“We still have Itu out, we still have Keegan out – they all came back with heavy flu,” he added.