Stuart Baxter Believes Kaizer Chiefs Players Have Anxiety!

Stuart Baxter Believes Kaizer Chiefs Players Have Anxiety! Amakhosi played out to a goalless draw at home last night.

Kaizer Chiefs drew 0-0 with TS Galaxy in the DSTV Premiership last night. Head coach Stuart Baxter believes that his players are carrying psychological problems.

Amakhosi went into the match on the back of a 3-1 win away to Chippa United. So, there was massive expectation to get the better of TS Galaxy on the night.

However, the hosts missed a flurry of opportunities as they missed a chance to close in on second place.

“I thought we started quite well,” Baxter told SuperSport TV after the draw.

“The first 25 minutes without having that real edge of quality that’s going to decide the game. But then it became the game we didn’t want.

“We lost the ball, they lost the ball, they give us the ball, we give them the ball and there was just no real fluency to the game. And in that situation either time can score.

“So, we tried to address that at halftime. We left the same shape, came out in the second half and it wasn’t better.

“Even though as you say there were chances at both ends. I think that when we went to a 4-3-3 and Bibo and Mshini in the pockets we had more of the ball, and we created better chances.

“I think probably the one that hit the post, if that had gone in, it would have probably reflected the game. I think we shaded it, we didn’t dominate it, but we probably shaded it.

“And it wasn’t to be, so we have to accept it.

“We’ll look at the footage and see if we can find tactical reasons. We’ll look at the stats and see if we can see physical reasons, but I can’t unfortunately get inside their heads and find out about the psychological reasons, but I can suspect and I can suspect that the players are playing with too much anxiety at the moment.

“That when things don’t go their way, they take it hard. It’s not a question of whether they don’t care, it’s a question of whether they care too much and they feel that the shirt weighs a little bit heavy and at halftime I tried to address that.

“But it needed a tactical change before we relaxed a bit and started playing the sort of football that we want to play. Yes, there will be mistakes when it’s slippery and there’s an aggressive opponent.

“But the important thing is that we dare to play and dare to make a few mistakes. I think that’s maybe the difference between our good performances and our poor performances.

“Mshini comes in and we want to get him into the pockets driving in on that left foot and we got him in an ideal situation, and he gets his shot away and it’s a coat of paint isn’t it. And that’s the nature of the beast.” He concluded.

Amakhosi remain in second place after the match. Stuart Baxter Believes Kaizer Chiefs Players Have Anxiety!