Baxter hopes Kambole has turned the corner

Kaizer Chiefs coach Stuart Baxter will hope that Saturday’s goal for Lazarous Kambole against Chippa United will open the floodgates for the Zambia international.

Kambole netted for just a second time in 42 games in a Chiefs jersey, following a lone striker against Stellenbosch FC at the tail-end of the last season 2019-20 season in the Gauteng bio bubble.

It was a dire return for a player who had scored freely with his former side Zesco United in the Zambian MTN Super League, but found the step up to the DStv Premiership too difficult.

Baxter will hope that the confidence gained in scoring late on in the 4-0 win over Chippa United will change the fortunes of the 27-year-old and help him to settle at Naturena.

"I don't think he is the same type of striker as say a Bernard Parker or Khama Billiat, he’s one who is going to work behind back fours, and we’ve got to get to know him,” Baxter said.

"It’s important for him to start to time his movements and on when to go. I said to him before the game that, ‘you're going to go on tonight and you’re going to go on confident because you’ve had a good week’s training’.

"He went on and he was confident, the goal quite rightly should be a big thing for him as he can now draw a line in the sand and from now, he can kick on."

Next up for Kambole and Chiefs is a difficult away league clash at SuperSport United on Sunday.