Bernard Parker believes Kaizer Chiefs will put an end to their trophy drought by winning the Nedbank Cup, in addition to claiming that they have ‘too much quality’ in the team.

The 31-year-old addressed the issue of Chiefs’ three-year wait for trophies under the tutelage of Steve Komphela and the former Bafana Bafana international suggested that they will go on to win the Nedbank Cup trophy.

‘We’re well aware that this is the third year, and the last couple of months for our coach,’ he told Kickoff.

‘Since he’s been here, he hasn’t gotten anything. This is our chance to get a trophy for the club, firstly, and for the coach and his career as well.

‘I think us putting so much pressure on ourselves knocks us a little bit with inconsistency, because we win two or three games and think, “oh, we’re back on it, we’ve got our form” and then in the next game we suffer and don’t get the required result,’ he added.

Parker then went on to address the issue of not having enough quality in the team, saying that it’s the complete opposite, citing their inconsistency as a mental block.

‘So, I think it’s more mental. It’s not that we don’t have enough quality players, we’ve got too much quality here in this team, but it’s just about how we complement one another.

‘By keeping it simple… we’ve played games where we kept it simple already and the quality eventually showed and we got the result.

‘Teams that don’t have as much quality as what we have, have won cups. I’m talking about in this three-year period of time. They’ve won a cup here and there so we definitely owe the club some silverware, and ourselves as well, because we’re also here to win trophies.

‘This is, for all of us at Kaizer Chiefs as players, the most important time of our lives, where we need to put all our focus and energy, and if we do that I think we will get silverware,’ he concluded.

Chiefs will find out who they face in the quarter-finals of the Nedbank Cup with the draw set for tonight at 19:30.

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