Hunt prepared for an onslaught
GOALS NOT COMING BUT BOSS NOT FAZED ‘We are not playing badly, we have just been unfortunate’.
Having done so well last season following their Absa Premiership and MTN8 triumph, Bidvest Wits coach Gavin Hunt believes every team they play in this current campaign will be looking to go the extra mile against them.
With only four games played thus far, their results clearly show the Johannesburg outfit are finding it difficult to hit the heady heights of last season, having registered only one win, one draw and two losses in all competitions.
Hunt, however, believes his team’s performances are not poor, they have just not been firing enough in front of goal.
“I think once you have won some games, teams want to do better against you. It is football, there is more desire, but let it be so. I told the players that if they want to challenge, win things and be competitive then they will get that every week from opposition,” said the Wits mentor.
“We just have to get better results, although we have been playing okay. We haven’t been that bad considering some of the games we played last year where we weren’t great, but still won. That’s football for you.
“But again it can happen at any other team at any given time. We just have to be better, especially in the final third. That may be what has let us down. We have had so many opportunities which we haven’t taken. But the attitude has been good, the desire and the work rate has also been good.”
Ahead of their MTN8 semifinal, second-leg clash with Benni McCarthy’s Cape Town City at Bidvest Stadium on Sunday, the Clever Boys coach is confident his charges can turn things around after losing 1-0 in the first leg played in Cape Town a fortnight ago.
“We are pretty confident, not in the terms of how we play. And I don’t think we are playing badly, we have just been unfortunate.”
Last year the teams met at the very same stage of the competition and Wits went through to the final after winning 3-0 on aggregate.