Kaizer Chiefs riding winning wave but attack needs sharpening - Ben Youssef

Speaking after yesterday’s 1-0 win over ZESCO United at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, Ben Youssef highlighted the need to improve their conversion rate.  

Amakhosi have won all four games by a 1-0 scoreline and, with domestic league and cup and continental matches coming thick and fast, the coach knows they must be better. 

"I think we stick a lot with the players, we've made a lot of specific work for them and now recently we don't have time to make a lot of work, we are [forced] to have only one training session before every match so we don't have space or time to work.

"But we are using video with our analysts to give them more solutions, and I think we are on a good way, and step by step they will get better.

"If you remember the last two games before the [AFCON] break, against Chippa United and TS Galaxy, we dominated both games but we were unlikely not to score.

"Now we have improved a little bit, we are winning games and we are scoring – I know at 1-0 you are always in a critical situation because every team could come back and equalise, but we are working and helping the players and step by step it will be better."

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Yesterday’s game saw Mduduzi Shabalala notch up his 100th Chiefs appearance in topflight football, with the 22-year-old tipped for an even brighter future. 

"Shabalala is one of the best players, I think he's performing very well and [his best attributes] is that he's very smart, so passionate and every advice you give him, he's always ready [to receive it]," Ben Youssef added.

"He's a professional player and I hope that he will continue and he will be part of Bafana Bafana in the World Cup."