Kaizer Chiefs coach Komphela wants goals in Carling Black Label Cup clash with Orlando Pirates

The last four encounters of this Soweto Derby pre-season contest between Chiefs and Orlando Pirates have produced just three goals in open play – a 1-1 draw in 2012 and a 1-0 win for Chiefs the following year.

Three of those four matches have needed the lottery of the penalties to produce a winner with Pirates lifting the trophy every time this match has gone to a shootout.

So in essence the Black Label Cup is yet to produce a winner when both teams have scored in normal time and surely for a pre-season match goals should be getting scored in abundance.

“It should be,” responds Komphela on being asked about the shortage of goals in the competition.

“Football is about goalmouth action as everyone else wants to see goals. But again it gives you the magnitude and intensity of the match that nobody wants to give it away. We beat them 1-0 when we won it and then we drew 1-1 so there are not many goals. One would love to see goals coming and it is also the responsibility of us coaches, though I don’t know which coaches, the coaches who selected the players or the coaches on the bench. But it is very interesting and we have to try and give them more goals,” says Komphela.

While the Black Label Cup is a mere pre-season contest which belongs more to the fans, the former Bafana Bafana captain maintains that this fixture does get them off the blocks in the way that they want.

“It does [set the tone] as it will give everybody else, not just myself, but also the new players coming in the feel of playing in front of 90 000 people. The atmosphere, the ambience, the energy in there and even if you are a man with more like pain when you move in there the atmosphere and the energy lifts you so that on its own tells you that come October you will go through the same.

“Setting the tone, I say yes it does and I am sure everybody else, even our supporters, in as much as it is their voting system they are interested in what we are bringing to them and it does set the tone in a way,” he says.

Saturday’s match is at FNB Stadium again, kicking off at 15h30.