Kaizer Chiefs coach Arthur Zwane admits his side nearly made it difficult for themselves against Casric Stars at the FNB Stadium on Sunday evening.

The Glamour Boys booked their place in the quarter-finals of the competition after they secured a 2-1 victory over the Motsepe Foundation Championship side in Soweto.

Bonfils Bimenyimana opened the scoring for Amakhosi from the penalty spot in the 11th minute before Kgomotso Mosadi levelled matters in the 62nd minute but Ashley Du Preez put the game beyond Stars a minute later to secure the win for Amakhosi.

Zwane bemoans his side’s missed chances against Stars but was pleased with the result after they advanced to the next round of the Nedbank Cup.

“Look, we nearly made it difficult for ourselves. Easy game, if we applied ourselves correctly. We started off very well, we put them under pressure and we forced a penalty,” Zwane told SuperSport TV.

“Then from that moment I thought we’ll keep the momentum, we would force them to make more mistakes, so they commit mistakes, then we score goals.

“I think again we slowed down a little bit, then we had to make changes in the second-half just to put them under pressure because Caleb was also struggling a little bit,” he continued.

“So we knew ‘Ash’ (Du Preez) with his speed and doing the pockets and also put Solly (Solomons) on the right so that we could have speed on the right because there was that space for us to exploit but we did not capitalise.

“But we created few chances from the space behind in the right especially and we were unfortunate not to take those chances but yeah we nearly made it difficult for ourselves. You look at the goal we conceded, came out of complacency and yeah, it’s one of those things.”

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