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Simba information officer Haji Manara has since stated they had lost to the better team on the matchday and admitted his team’s display was poor and sloppy, coupled with many silly mistakes. “We have lost to a team who were the best of the day,” Manara wrote on his social media pages. “We have played a very poor game and did not deserve to get anything from the game. “We committed very many silly mistakes which deserved the humiliation we have received in Johannesburg but life must go on, we also have another 90 minutes to decide the destiny of the game in the return leg.”

Goal on Sunday. "Our approach in the game from the start to the end was just not good. Considering the fact that we were away, a goal or two would not have been that bad for us considering the second leg was to be played at home." The 29-year-old former Gor Mahia midfielder is, however, optimistic that things will change when the teams meet again in the second leg at the Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam. "On Saturday Chiefs were a better team than us; as in, in every department, they were stronger," Kahata continued. "They also capitalised on the home advantage well. But it is football...

“Sometimes things do work out you know - that's why I laughed,” said Hunt as per IOL. “Ten or 15 seconds before that [fourth goal], I said what we need to do, the things we work on and where we need to be without the ball, and then we turned the ball over and we were in the right position so the goal came. “So, that's why I laughed because that was pretty much [what we wanted]. You don't get that much in football but it was, from an organisational point of view, out of position. "Because I knew when we turned it over that we would get a situation like that, and it worked out.”

Here is your guide to Saturday's Caf Champions League quarter-final clash between Simba SC of Tanzania and Kaizer Chiefs of South Africa.

Goal on Monday. "But by the time I heard of it, I was already in Sudan. I wished he would have told me earlier, things might have been different. Too bad, he planned it but I learned late." The now 28-year-old played in Sudan for a year before joining Zambian heavyweights Zesco United, where he played from 2016 to 2020. Kaizer Chiefs were then interested in his signature in 2020 and he did not hesitate to join them.  However, his time at the club has not been as smooth as he had anticipated. After starting in his favourite position as a defensive midfielder, he was later drafted in defence.�...