Kaizer Chiefs’ last game of the season against Polokwane City on Saturday will carry extra weight for the club.
Priority for Chiefs will be a win, which they will hope enables them to squeeze into the Top Eight and gives them another shot at silverware early in the new season after their recent Nedbank Cup success.
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However, a win in the league has been scarce for the side, who are now approaching their longest run without three points throughout the history of the PSL.
The catalogue of issues that have defined Nasreddine Nabi’s first season have meant they are now on eight league games without a victory.
Amakhosi have failed to gather a win against Cape Town City, Richards Bay FC, Golden Arrows, TS Galaxy, Chippa United, Marumo Gallants, rivals Orlando Pirates, and Sekhukhune United.
By the time they play against Polokwane City on Saturday, it will have been two months since they last won in the Betway Premiership.
At eight games without a win in the league, they are now one fixtures away from matching their longest run without victory.
The Soweto giants went nine matches without a win from late December 2001 to January of the following year under Muhsin Ertugral.
They couldn’t get victories against SuperSport United, Hellenic, Pirates, AmaZul FC, Moroka Swallows, Wits University, Tembisa Classic, Bush Bucks, and Mamelodi Sundowns.
The evidence of that run without winning came out in finishing ninth, which is the position they occupy now.
Fortunate for Chiefs then was that all was forgiven after they won the BP Top8, Coca-Cola Cup, and CAF Cup Winners’ Cup.
So, victory will be crucial for the Glamour Boys on Saturday not only for brightening Top Eight possibilities but to avoid matching their longest wait for victory.
They have also had other long runs without a win in recent times.
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Chiefs went seven without a win in the league from November 2020 to January 2021 under Gavin Hunt after having gone for just as many games without winning under Ernst Middendorp in 2019.
It was also seven with no win under Steve Komphela from October to December 2016.
