With no goals or assists in 12 appearances at the club, Cavin Johnson has explained why striker Efmamjjasond Gonzalez has struggled.
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While he did not have the best record coming in, with just eight goals in 20 appearances for Club Real Santa Cruz, there was a hope that Gonzalez would be the answer to Chiefs' goal scoring problems.
Instead, the forward has looked like a square peg in a round hole, with his loan move to Chiefs not working out as planned.
His coach says that the striker needed a longer period to acclimatize to circumstances in the PSL, saying that it takes at least eight months for a South American player to adjust to the league.
Gonzales is currently into his eighth month at the club having joined in August last year, though it appears as if the next month will be his final in the black and gold of Amakhosi.
“I work with him and he’s a quality player but my problem is that I’ve been here too short a time to get results all the time and some players, especially South Americans, I’ve worked with them before and some of them take longer than others to get the feel of the PSL or the feel of South African football,” he told journalists at the club’s media open day.
“So we’ve been here for six months and I tell you at other clubs where I’ve been, we give those players at least eight months’ orientation and that’s what I see, he needs a bit more [time] but every time you put him in, he’s there.
“When you look at the game we played against Sekhukhune, where Mshini [Nkosingiphile Ngcobo] scores, he’s there. He makes the run and we score. So it's those little things. We judge people by the goals they score but I think he’s a good player, he does well at training – but like I always say, we pick the team according to the opposition we play and when that happens, we hope that he can get on the pitch as well," he said.
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