Edmilson Dove insists they are putting in the effort to fix the issues that have left them walking in a mini-crisis at Kaizer Chiefs.
Chiefs have failed to get into third gear all season as evidenced by their line of results.
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"We have been working extremely hard on the field to try and correct that and keep all the good things that we have been doing because it's not been all bad things," says the Mozambican, who has played 90 minutes six games in a row since his return from a long lay-off due to injury.
"We are trying to polish our final entrance.
"We have been creating so many chances and sometimes we don't convert them but also trying to minimize the number of goals that we concede.
"I think overall it is working on all the departments where we feel like sometimes, we let ourselves down.
"I think we need to maintain the good things that we have been doing, I'm sure we will get it right," he says, while responding to issues relating to how they have leaked goals.
"Defending doesn't start at the back.
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"It is a whole unit problem and, as I said, there are things that we need to fix starting from the front to the back.
"When we concede goals, it is not only about defenders but the whole team, so it is something that we need to fix as a unit and not as a department," says Dove.