Kaizer Chiefs coach Nasreddine Nabi has said what he said to his team at half-time to inspire their 2-1 win over Mamelodi Sundowns in the Nedbank Cup semi-final.
Wandile Duba and Ashley Du Preez scored in the second half to cancel out Teboho Mokoena’s first half stoppage-time goal, as Chiefs booked their first Nedbank Cup final since 2019.
A delighted Nabi said it wasn’t just his team’s performance in the second half, and he felt they were good in the first 45 too.
He said at half-time he told the team that the game was theirs for the taking.
“I think, even the first half, it was very good half for us,” Nabi told SuperSport TV.
“It was a tactical half. In the planning of the game, we said, we will manage the first half. We know that physical(ly) Sundowns, after the game against Esperance, and then they have a game also against Al Ahly, they can’t manage 90 minutes,
“I think after 45 minutes, because it’s very, very difficult, it’s a very bad time you concede when you go inside, last minute, in the first half.
“But believe me, we said only one thing in the change room. ‘This game is our game.’
“We have to win this game for the fans, for the board, for everybody. We have to prove that we deserve to be in the final. And I think we said for the players, congratulations for the first half, but I was more than sure that for the second half they will did very well.
“And this win, we make it for the fans, to make them happy. Now congratulations for all the players, the players here, the players out of squad, all the players, congratulation for them.”
