Emotions will run high on Saturday evening when Ajax Cape Town meet Kaizer Chiefs at the Vodacom Loftus Stadium in Tshwane for a PSL show down, which sees Chiefs coach Muhsin Ertugral come face to face with the team who he coached last season.

Apart from the occasion holding significance for The Amakhosi coach, Chiefs player of the season and the clubs top goal scorer from the 2006 – 2007 Kaizer Motaung Junior, is targeting Saturday evenings game against the Urban Warriors to get himself off the mark and find his first goal for Chiefs this season.

Motaung, who narrowly missed out on being the PSL’s top marksmen last season as he had to sit out Chiefs run into the season through injury, made his return to first team action when he came on as a 67th minute replacement for David Mathebula when Chiefs took on Wits in a PSL game in Rustenburg on the 31st August. That appearance was Kaizer’s first for almost five months since his April 1st injury, he followed that up by starting in Chiefs next game, which was played this past weekend against SuperSport United.

On target

Ajax Cape Town, who currently lie in second place in the standings will not make life easy for Chiefs on Saturday. The Amakhosi do though have the added advantage of having defeated the Urban Warriors the last time the teams met back in January this year. Motaung played in the January game and like it was back then, his eye will be set on finding the target and getting Chiefs back up the PSL table.

“Basically I have had a game and a half since returning from injury and I feel that I have had the match practice that I needed to get under my belt. Now that I have had this playing time, I am working to ensure that I can hold onto my place in the starting eleven. To build on that and hold on to my place as it is obvious that we have a lot of competition in the team I need to get goals, and my aim is to get that out of the way by scoring a goal or more if possible this weekend”.

Missed chances

Kaizer was unfortunate not to have found the back of the net and could have had his goal tally for the season up and running during Chiefs recent draw with SuperSport, as he explains the way to goal has been carved he now has the task of turning the opportunities created into goals.

“We can not be say that there has been a lack of service to the strikers, because the midfield have done their work in being creative and laboring hard for the team to find openings to goal. The thing is that we have not been as clinical in the final third as we should be, that is something that we have worked on and we will try and turn things around this Saturday against Ajax.”