Kaizer Chiefs' return to action after the March FIFA dates will come with Nasreddine Nabi facing the task of avoiding drowning deep into the waters like Cavin Johnson last season.
According to the PSL fixtures, Chiefs still have eight league games to play, putting 24 points on offer to play for.
They have started the last third of the league campaign without a win after playing a goalless draw against Cape Town City and then suffering defeat at Richards Bay FC.
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Nabi knows that he needs to collect points more often than he has done this season if he is to guide the side to a dignified finish, which will be up in the top four.
Otherwise, he could have his name being mentioned next to that of Johnson, who had an atrocious finish at the Soweto giants last season, winning only once in the last 10 league games.
That horrendous run came with five defeats and four draws as Amakhosi bagged a mere seven points from 30, contributing to their embarrassing 10th place finish.
Seven points out of 30 ranks as the worst finish for any coach who was kept in the job for all the last 10 league games of his last season at Naturena since the turn of the new millennium.
That list has Arthur Zwane (16 points – 2022/23), Ernst Middendorp (12 points – 2019/20), Stuart Baxter (22 points – 2014/15), Muhsin Ertugral (23 points – 2008/09), Ted Dumitru (24 points - 2004/05), plus Doctor Khumalo and Ace Khuse (19 points – 2002/03).
Further crippling Chiefs last season was that they also had to endure the humiliation of being knocked out by Milford FC in the first round of the Nedbank Cup.
Nabi will surely look beyond getting at least seven points from 24 to better what Johnson did last season in the last 10 games.
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The plus for Nabi is that he has guided the side to the semi-finals this term, though what will count is lifting the trophy and ending the decade-long drought.
Chiefs have Arrows on Saturday, after which they will meet TS Galaxy, Chippa United, Marumo Gallants, Orlando Pirates, Sekhukhune United, Polokwane City, and the pending game against Royal AM.