Simo Dladla Says His Players Idolise Kaizer Chiefs!

Simo Dladla Says His Players Idolise Kaizer Chiefs! The Richards Bay boss masterminded a surprising win over Amakhosi.

Even though Kaizer Chiefs went down to 10 men, they created enough chances to win the game. Simo Dladla becomes the first ever NFD coach to beat a Gavin Hunt side.

Dladla credits the victory to the players sticking with the game plan that they had worked on before the game.

“It was a tough game but we had a plan coming here. We stuck to the plan. Lucky for us, we came here in a good run of form over the previous games so we said nothing changes,” Simo Dladla told SuperSport TV.

“We said when we have the ball we need to play our normal game, our normal passing game. When we don’t have the ball then we must work hard, get behind the ball, which we did very well.

“I told them not many people can think, especially when you are compact. And that proved to work for us. We forced them into thinking hard and then they were forced to go wide because I got two tall centre-halves who can compete with Nurkovic and them. They played well.

“Of course, Chiefs is a big team. And for some of these guys Chiefs players are their idols so they were idolising them at times.

“We had moments where we could really get behind them. We didn’t. And I think that got them back into it because with the structure I thought we were ahead of them.

“Let me just say it’s clear we need support, moral support, spiritual support. Maybe it helped us today that the Amakhosi fans were not here. I think we benefited from that today.” The Richards Bay boss concluded.

Simo Dladla Says His Players Idolise Kaizer Chiefs!