Cape Town City coach Eric Tinkler said his side should have scored four goals in their brilliant first-half against Kaizer Chiefs on Tuesday night at Cape Town Stadium.
City got their first win of the DStv Premiership season by beating Chiefs 2-0 at the packed Cape Town venue, thanks to goals in either half by Darwin Gonzalez and Nathan Idumba.
In an interview with media after the game, Tinkler was very happy by the way his side played in the opening 45 minutes and felt they could have scored more goals during the opening half.
“It’s about time, I don’t think it’s been a case for us playing poorly, you know the results just haven’t come. But we stuck to what we believed in and continued to believe in the team,” Tinkler told SuperSport TV.
“Tonight, I thought first-half absolutely brilliant; we should have come in at half-time I think 4-0, it should have been a rout.
“But you don’t take your chances, they started a lot better than us in the second half, put us under a little bit of pressure but then obviously we got the second goal and that took a lot of weight off everybody’s shoulders.”
When asked if he thought that Tuesday nights showing was their best of the season, Tinkler said: “Ya definitely but the chances we created today you have to put them into the back of the net because that takes a lot of pressure off everybody.
“And it’s difficult when you lose three games in a space of a week and that takes its toll psychologically on the players. So you start being on the edge, you start disbelieving in terms of what you are doing on the pitch. But tonight, vast improvement, everybody collectively contributed,” Tinkler said.
“We knew the spaces would be out wide especially when they decided to go with a back-three so they kind of played into our hands and we exploited those spaces very well in that first period, that’s where our most chances came from.
“There were periods in the game they became threatening whenever we lost the ball in the middle, very slippery out there, once or twice [Fidele] Ambina got caught, [Thato] Mokeke got caught and that was the only real threat that they caused against us.
“Every time we played in the channels we managed to get in behind, we managed to create goal-scoring situations. So, we spoke about that at half-time, needing to see more of that in the second-half,” he added.