Despite slumping to their eighth league defeat of the season, Kaizer Chiefs coach Cavin Johnson is confident that he still has the buy-in of the players.
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Dejected is a word that can best describe the look on the faces of Chiefs' players after they lost 1-0 to Stellenbosch at FNB Stadium on Tuesday evening.
Amakhosi are now three games without a win and find themselves in seventh position on the DStv Premiership with eight rounds of matches still to play.
After, the defeat to Stellies, Chiefs' interim coach Johnson was asked if he was still the right man for the job and whether or not he had the full buy-in of his players.
"Always," Johnson said. "I believe that. I think we are still together, and we haven't given up hope. It's like we say, you get a sucker punch goal against you and we cannot break the opposition down, which is normal. It happens in a football match," he told journalists.
"Maybe it looks like it's happening too often to us, we need to find the right player to score the goal and as a group we are struggling to get that. We thought Ash [Du Preez] had it – but we can't rely only on Ash, we gotta rely on [Pule] Mmodi, [Christian] Saile and [Mduduzi] Shabba to at least chip in somewhere and then we get better – but not to be tonight.
"I can tell you straight that the team and I are still together," he continued.
Chiefs' next match is against Chippa United at the Buffalo City Municipality Stadium on 6 April.
