Former Kaizer Chiefs caretaker coach and Head of Academy Cavin Johnson has opened up about what went wrong during his stint at the helm of Amakhosi.
Johnson joined the Soweto giants as a head of the academy late 2023 but with the first team in turmoil under Molefi Ntseki, Johnson was promoted to interim head coach by the club's hierarchy to salvage what at that poised looked to be a disastrous season.
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Unfortunately, Johnson fared no better than Ntseki as Chiefs won just one of their last 10 league matches and slipped to a 10th-place finish – their lowest finishing position in the PSL era.
Speaking on the On The Whistle Podcast, Johnson identified Chiefs' struggles in front of goals as one of several causes for the club's down.
"The backdrop of it is when you analyse the games, you know we normally say you have a goalkeeper if he is worth 15 points a season or 20 points a season that you can win the league.
"But you need the strikers to be able to put them in the back of the net, like they always say, a good team that wins the league normally has one of the best defences and your goalkeeper is the starting line and when you look at some of the clean sheets we had over the period that I was there, we had more than 10, [we had] 10 or eleven clean sheets but we were not able to put the ball in the back of the net.
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"So we had a good defence but not good enough strikers who were capable of putting it in the back of the net so that we could get the three points.
"That is probably part of the reason we were always up and down in the league; we could not get momentum. You have eight clean sheets, one after the other but there is not an assured momentum within those eight clean sheets.
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Chiefs have since dropped in former AS FAR Rabat coach Nasreddine Nabi as well as an all-new technical team in a big to end a nine-year trophy drought.
Meanwhile Johnson, who was expected to return to his role as head of academy, surprisingly parted ways with Chiefs altogether.