Kaizer Chiefs head coach Arthur Zwane says they have things difficult for themselves by conceding an away goal against AmaZulu on Sunday.
Gabadinho Mhango struck first with a lovely finish in the first, while Chiefs needed a second-half strike from substitute Keagan Dolly to get the draw.
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Zwane admitted the AmaKhosi had multiple chances to get the victory on the day.
"Ja look if you don't take your chances and you'll end up chasing the game like we've been chasing the game," Zwane told SuperSport after the game.
"And you're bound to make mistakes and you end up conceding the second goal and as I said, you could see the structure but they also had a good game plan in making sure that they kill time.
"They keep the ball, for first 20 minutes, we said to the boys let's force them to make mistakes but where, outside you know. Let's force them to play the ball out wide, the front three, don't go too early. Allow them to play the ball first, let's be compact with three midfielders and as soon as they play the ball outside, then let's set those pressing traps there.
"Then the guys, for the first 20 minutes we were too scattered and that's how we even ended up conceding the goal. But look I cannot falter the effort of the boys."
"We know we could have done better, we created a number of chances today, we could have easily scored four, five goals, even six, it wasn't to be in terms of scoring goals.
"But look we just made it difficult for ourselves, the fact that we conceded, now we're chasing the game, we're going to Durban to make sure we have to win at least and not concede a goal. But we have to score goals there in Durban."
Zwane went on to reflect on the positives going into the second-leg by added, "Yes, with the way we played we were just unfortunate, we couldn't take our chances but we've done well, we just dropped the tempo after scoring a goal," he carried on.
"I told them, let's keep the tempo high, let's force them to make more mistakes, now they are dead, they can't come back, they will only give us the ball.
"So we just have to make sure we punish them and those chances came in numbers but we couldn't take them."
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