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What's been said "I brought a guy up from the Diski team last week, well he's been here for two weeks now. I saw him play once and said, 'He's got to come to the first team,'" Hunt told the media. "I played him yesterday in a little friendly game, and he was outstanding. He's another [youngster coming through], so hopefully, I'm going to register him and we might put him in the team for the weekend. "So, yeah, he's another one that's come through and we've got quite a few at the moment. His nickname is 'Bibo'. If he can play half as well as the Bibo [Thandani Ntshumayelo] I had at SuperSport [United], who I gave a chance to."
In the meantime, Hunt has been getting creative by switching his players' positions and chopping and changing his starting line-up - not only because he was forced to, but sometimes in order to rest and rotate players and to experiment with different options. Now as the Glamour Boys prepare to host Baroka FC at the FNB Stadium on Tuesday evening (17:00 kick-off), Hunt has some tricky decisions to make, especially in the following positions: Right-wing Lebogang Manyama started the season in poor form and then dropped out of the squad due to illness. He returned with a couple of promising performances, notably after coming off the bench against TTM to grab a goal and an assist in 3-0 win. But he failed to live up to expectations in the 0-0 draw against Stellenbosch FC on Saturday.
Being in the spotlight by playing for the biggest club in the land can cause any player, especially a younger one, to lose focus and to let the fame go to his head. When asked if this is ever a concern to him, Hunt made it clear where he stands on the matter. "This club has had too many of those players," he told the media after Amakhosi's 0-0 draw against Stellenbosch FC at the Danie Craven Stadium on Saturday evening. "We don't want those players, if I'm here they won't be here," Hunt added. "We've had too many players like that so we have got to keep their feet on the ground and work hard.
Wasted chances reign as Stellenbosch and Kaizer Chiefs draw Jonty Mark Erick Mathoho of Kaizer Chiefs attempts to tackle Deano van Rooyen of Stellenbosch FC during the DStv Premiership 2020/21 game between Stellenbosch FC and Kaizer Chiefs at Danie Craven Stadium in Stellenbosch on January 23, 2021. Picture: Shaun Roy/BackpagePix Both teams might have won this DStv Premiership encounter, but neither had their shooting boots on. Kaizer Chiefs’ winning DStv Premiership run came to an end on Saturday as they were held to a goalless draw by Stellenbosch FC at the Danie Craven Stadium. ALSO READ: Nyatama rescues a point for Stellenbosch against Sundowns
Marc Strydom"> By Marc Strydom - 21 January 2021 - 12:28 Happy Mashiane of Kaizer Chiefs celebrates goal with teammates during the DStv Premiership match between Kaizer Chiefs and Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila at FNB Stadium on January 19, 2021 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Image: Muzi Ntombela/BackpagePix/Gallo Images Kaizer Chiefs coach Gavin Hunt knows his team are entirely a work in progress‚ but has taken much satisfaction from the emergence to the forefront in their three wins in a row of some of the youngsters being thrown in. After a dismal start of one win from their last nine games‚ the three victories have seen Chiefs rocket from 14th place to seventh in the DStv Premiership in the space of less than three weeks.
Austin Ditlhobolo 20:09 GMT 19/01/2021 The Glamour Boys thrashed Vhadau Vha Damani 3-0 in a PSL match on Tuesday. Goal runs the rule over the individual performances of the Amakhosi players Backpagepix Daniel Akpeyi - 6/10 Akpeyi was also well protected by the Chiefs defence on the night. Backpagepix Kgoto Moleko - 7/10 Made his return to the starting line-up and did not allow the tricky Thabo Rakhale to trouble him. The experienced right-back used all of his knowledge and guile to nullify Rakhale’s threat and also looked good making forward runs. Backpagepix Fearless and always pushing forward sums up the hard-working full-back's display.
Gavin Hunt explains Cardoso's switch to midfield 15 January 2021 - 08:44 Image: Steve Haag/BackpagePix As many wondered why centre-back Daniel Cardoso operated in the midfield in Kaizer Chiefs' 1-0 win over AmaZulu on Wednesday, mentor Gavin Hunt has reasoned the defender’s change of position had to do with the unavailability of some of his seasoned troops in that position. In the past two matches against Maritzburg United and AmaZulu, Chiefs’ midfield was thinned by the absence of Willard Katsande and Lebogang Manyama, hence Hunt resorted to Cardoso to partner new kid on the block Darrel Matsheke in the engine room against Usuthu, where Samir Nurkovic netted the solitary goal that saw Chiefs win.
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