Kaizer Chiefs legend Doctor Khumalo has questioned the leadership among the Amakhosi players, saying Reeve Frosler didn’t look like should’ve taken a penalty in the loss to Red Arrows.
Amakhosi managed to level their CAF Confederation Cup second round tie inside 90 minutes after Bradley Cross scored the only goal of the match.
However, they lost the clash on penalties after Lebohang Maboe, Frosler and Ethan Chislett missed their spot-kicks.
Khumalo quesioned whether Frosler should’ve taken his spot-kick, because he already looked uncomfortable with his body language walking up to his spot-kick.
“I said his body language was not a positive one, it was a little sluggish,” he said on SABC2.
“The question is, do we have leadership within the players, because they are certain players that can probably command to say ‘no, sorry coach, I don’t think so and so should take it’.
“It happened to me, when I was still playing. I had a bad game and the late Ace Ntsolengoe, the coach selected me and he said ‘coach, I don’t think you need to give Doc a penalty because I don’t think he had a good game, let’s protect’.
“That kind of interaction among the players themselves… Look at the responsibility that is given to the youngsters, yes they didn’t disappoint but like I said I’m not a fan of criticising the players missing the penalties.
“It could’ve gone either way, they took their penalties [well] and the last one which was the last hope of Kaizer Chiefs by Chislett, he missed it.
“Again, it’s just to regroup, because taking of penalties, we differ how we take penalties. But pass the net.”