Kaizer Chiefs coach Stuart Baxter was grilled with tough questions in a press conference on Thursday, and his responses on Njabulo Ngcobo and Nkosingiphile Ngcobo's absences seem likely to leave the club's supporters only partly satisfied.
Given a reasonable start to his second tenure with a new-look team in a rebuilding phase, Baxter seemed surprised at so many question marks raised in the digital briefing ahead of his side's fourth DStv Premiership matchup of 2021-22 against Royal AM at FNB Stadium on Saturday.
After a flat draw against TS Galaxy, and at times sumptuous 2-1 win against Baroka FC, Chiefs missed chances and put up a fight in a 2-0 defeat to champions Mamelodi Sundowns at Loftus Versfeld on Sunday.The already much-debated absence, apart from a substitute's appearance for emerging talent Nkosingiphile, of Chiefs' two Ngcobos this campaign was worsened by Thabani Dube starting against Downs and committing costly errors.
Njabulo Ngcobo's continued wait for a debut has been a talking point, given Daniel Cardoso and Erick Mathoho continue to be shaky at centreback, and Chiefs' 27-year-old signing was the Premiership's defender of the season at Swallows FC last season.“You talk about last season — I didn't see him one minute last season. So the first time I saw him was when I walked through the gates at Naturena.
“Njabulo was obviously going to have to make himself known to me, me to him, do some work together and see how quickly we can get him in. “He's done very well in training, as has Austin [Dube], and at the moment it's been very much just trying to ease them in.“And I'm sure that Njabulo will appreciate that, and that when he gets his chance it'll be going in knowing what to do and give a good performance instead of being thrown into a backline that he's not familiar with, and he's not had practice with apart from a few training sessions.
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