Former Kaizer Chiefs assistant coach Farouk Khan feels Ashley du Preez could be a player Amakhosi need to beat Mamelodi Sundowns.
Chiefs and Masandawana meet for the first time this season at the FNB Stadium on Wednesday evening. The last time the two teams met, Amakhosi claimed a 2-1 win in the Nedbank Cup semi-finals in April.
Speaking ahead of Wednesday’s clash, Khan backed Kaizer Chiefs coach Nasreddine Nabi to play Du Preez upfront.
“I would like to go with a quick player like Du Preez, I think Du Preez could be a solution, Du Preez last season was scoring important goals, he has been out of favour for some reason,” Khan said on Soccerbeat.
“But when a player is sitting that long on the bench he becomes hungry as well, he may want to prove a point and we know when he came to Chiefs, how important and impactful he was.
Will Kaizer Chiefs coach play Du Preez?
“So maybe go with him, he can cause problems for Sundowns defence, they have challenges in that defensive back-four, sometimes back-three, they are not always as comfortable as they should be and now is the most opportune time to put one over Sundowns, because there is a lot of problems in their camp, you can see there’s a lot of instability,” Khan added.
Should Du Preez start against Sundowns?
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