Hunt calls for Chiefs improvement

Gavin Hunt says his Kaizer Chiefs must show an improvement or they will miss out on a top-eight place in the DStv Premiership this season.

Chiefs lost 1-0 at home to relegation-threatened Chippa United on Wednesday, a demoralising defeat after the high of their success over table-topping Mamelodi Sundowns at the weekend. 

"Obviously we dominated the ball [possession] but you have got to work the goalkeeper a little bit more, which we didn't do. We had enough opportunities, more than enough," Hunt said.

"It's a problem, we haven't scored many and obviously we make one mistake the whole game and we concede, so you have got to give them credit, they put two big boys [up front], forced it a little bit, but we should be better.

"We dominated the ball but every time we got to the final third, the final ball let us down. So congratulations to Chippa.”

Chiefs were denied what looked like a clear penalty, but Hunt says they should not have had to rely on that decision to get something from the game.

"I watch yesterday and I see penalties given and I go ... but it's football. We can't rely on that, we need to be better, we need to score, we need to have the final pass across the face, the first half of the game we should be out of sight.

"It was like a practice match, I said to the players at halftime, 'we have got to score the first goal here because if they score they'll just sit in and dig in', which they did and fair play to them."

Chiefs are next in action on Saturday when they travel to Bloemfontein Celtic.