Royal AM coach John Maduka has urged his side to improve after playing out to a goalless draw against Kaizer Chiefs in the DStv Premiership.

Thwihli Thwahla played out to their third draw in the league after sharing the spoils with Amakhosi at the Harry Gwala Stadium in Pietermaritzburg.

The draw sees Royal AM sits in 14th place with 19 points from 16 matches, while Amakhosi remains in fifth position on the log with 25 points after 17 games.

Maduka has called on his side to be more consistent but also bemoaned their decision-making in the final third.

“If you look at the game itself, first half good combination play, get into that final third we created good chances, unfortunately, we were not clinical enough but you know, good play,” expressed Maduka.

“In the second-half I think we dropped a little bit, especially in terms of us going forward more the same way we did in the first half. But first-half we could have scored two or three goals but unfortunately it wasn’t to be.

“It has been our problem in defence whereby we concede goals and how do we concede goals, it’s because we make mistakes in critical areas and we get punished and we said let’s improve, because for us (not to concede) we can be able to score goals, let’s minimise mistakes that cost us most of the team, then we take it from there,” he added.

“And that happened today, we defended as a team, the chances that Chiefs had, mistakes again, our decision-making not really right, that’s why they had those kind of chances.

“But very solid in defence, it’s something to take on from this game, something to build on. Going forward consistency is one of the things, we shouldn’t only play in big games like this. I think if we play in each and every game like this we’ll win so many games,” he concluded.

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