Kaizer Chiefs coach Nasreddine Nabi has pointed out the hurdles that he has found on his path in his mission to revive the fortunes of the club.
Nabi is facing the familiar questions relating to which direction his team is heading in a season that he has repeatedly emphasised is a rebuilding phase.
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Chiefs have been thin on being consistent coming with a pattern of ups and downs currently plugged on the up after their midweek win.
"In the process of construction, the biggest particularity is the inconsistence of the performance," says the Tunisian-Belgian.
"Tactical performance of some players is sometimes zig zag, sometimes better and sometimes very poor.
"This particular for the first season if you start the rebuilding process.
"But to which the emphasis on the point is if you see what the situation is at this moment, you need to see in the short future.
"If you know and analyse the situation, you will win the heart of the process.
"This is an important point to understand because you may think you are in the process but not in the right direction.
"Your analysis might not be correct, and you take the bad decision.
"For that, for myself and management, we understand very well after analysing everything about where we are and what we need exactly to go far up.
"It is important to know where we are at the moment with precision," says Nabi, whose team faces Stellenbosch FC on Saturday in the Nedbank Cup quarterfinals.
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"We believe that it is going to be a very tough game, and we don't believe for one second that the last positive results we got against them are going to count in this game.
"First thing is we have started to work mentally with our players to understand that it is a new game," he adds.