Kaizer Chiefs coach Nasreddine Nabi claims they were not "mentally ready" to take on Chippa United in the Betway Premiership on Saturday evening.
The match ended goalless as both teams squandered a number of promising chances in both of the halves as the result leaves them in mid-table.
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According to Nabi, his charges didn’t deserve victory and weren’t in the right frame of mind a week after advancing to the final of the Nedbank Cup against Mamelodi Sundowns.
“I think it was a very tough game, but to be honest with you we don’t deserve to win this game. To win this game, you must be ready for every challenge, you must be number one for the ball. I think mentally we were not ready for this game. Like, I said to you to win this game you must be more than 100 percent ready to fight,” Nabi told SuperSport TV.
The Tunisian refused to elaborate on the change of Glodly Lilepo for Tashreeq Morris at the start of the second half, and added they not a one-man team.
“We not going to discuss about individual players, but we look at all the players. We are Kaizer Chiefs team, we’re not player by player so we spoke about the team and the team was not 100 hundred percent, it’s not what it showed last week against Sundowns. It was today different,” Nabi said.
“The same answer even if we score the chances we get, we don’t deserve to win this game. With this spirit today, if I win it’s not correct, I need another mentality. I think today the team was out today of the normal performance."
