Cape Town City head Eric Tinkler has identified the lack of scoring goals as their main problem.
City are in an unfamiliar position in the league table after suffering their fifth defeat in 10 league games including their narrow 1-0 defeat to AmaZulu at DHL Stadium on Sunday.
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The Citizens have only scored six goals in the league which is not enough to see them in a better position.
Tinkler believes that they need a striker that can score goals after their prolific striker Khanyisa Mayo, who had been scoring +10 goals each season, was sold to Algerian giants CR Belouizdad.
“When we go to Fortune, for example. I think the unfortunate reality with that is that he got injured and has been out and is not available,” Tinkler told the media.
“In the beginning, he struggled to adapt. I think, it’s only normal. But Fortune has never been a prolific goalscorer or a prolific, creating assist. I’ve coached him. He’s a very comfortable, confident player on the ball when his confidence is very, very high, and he struggled in the beginning in his confidence, because he hasn’t been playing a hell of a lot coming from Pirates.
“Losing Carlinhos was a massive loss because he would have given us that, that finer quality. So, losing him the way we did it beginning of the season was a big loss. But, yeah, you know, then I’ve got to talk about the rest.
“You got to Hash his record, and you’ll see he’s not a prolific goalscorer. That’s not his thing unfortunately, and we hope that he can.
“I thought he had a great chance in the first half where he should have taken the shot, but he opted to try and take another turn and find someone else. So, I’ve got to try and get that out of his head. Those situations, because every game he gets into a situation where he potentially can score, but for whatever reason, he struggles to believe in himself in those situations. So, yeah, we just got to keep on working.
“Darwin this season, the production has been less. Fact, he gave us more assists. He gave us more goals last season and the season before, and at the moment, he is struggling. He had a couple of chances today, but he scuffed the one shot that went wide.
“Amadou is also someone that came from a club where he wasn’t playing much and needed to get game time and build his confidence, and he, himself, has been struggling, to find that ability, week in and week out, to put the ball in the back of the net.
“Then Prinz, another one that we signed, came to us as a 10, but we’ve moved him into a nine. And you know, as much as I see in training that he can score goals because he knows how to, we sometimes look at those things and we say, yeah, no, we rely too much on the strike of it.
“Yeah, you need a quality striker to put the ball in the back of the net, as yet, we’ve struggled in that department.
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“I think Jaden also this season, numbers have dropped, and they’ve all got to have to work a lot harder to get the numbers back where they are because we know what they can do. You know now it’s about them stepping up and doing it.”
