Goals from Erick Mathoho and Leonardo Castro handed Chiefs a 2-1 win over Stellenbosch in the Nedbank Cup round of 16.
Despite claiming the win, Komphela feels his side still need that killer instinct in front of goal.
“I thought we had a good first half, we should have got two or three goals which would have made life easy. In the second half, we almost made things difficult for ourselves,” Komphela told SuperSport TV.
“We need to develop a killer instinct where you distance the opponent from a hope of thinking that they can equalise. 2-1, it puts a lot of stress where you can’t make changes for the future but you want to affect the game. I’m delighted with the victory, we go into the next round and we keep on working.
“You gotta be fearless but it’s different saying it than them [the players] and applying it. They need to get into the level of thinking and the zone that you’re in. We did say at halftime that we need to dominate and play with more freedom but again how you do things is about how you feel and how you feel goes back to how you think.
“The initial stage of any process is thinking and if you don’t have the level of confidence that you need to feel right in order to see things you won’t feel right and you won’t act right. And for us to act right we need to be consistent with the results where in our head we know that we’re clear, emotionally we’re clear and action wise will be perfect.”