Kaizer Chiefs players feeling pressure ahead of Polokwane City meeting

The two teams meet at the FNB Stadium this afternoon (15:00), and Chiefs are in a position where they need a win to still be assured of finishing inside the top eight going to the last round of matches in the DStv Premiership next weekend.

Chiefs are currently eighth on the log, tied on 35 points with City with two games to go, making this a game of utmost importance for Johnson and the team.

"I think the players realise that the game on the weekend against Polokwane is more than six points, it's our last home game at the FNB and we have to go out and give our supporters something towards the end of the season,” Johnson said.

“So, we also know that we're playing eight and nine which any team who plays against Kaizer Chiefs, if we are five and they are 13 it's a cup final. So, being at Kaizer Chiefs is always a cup final. So, come Saturday we will treat the game as a cup final and play the best we can do to win the game."

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Chiefs have only won two of their last 10 matches, with five losses and three draws. After playing two draws in recent games, Johnson says the mood has been picking up in the camp.

"We've always been very positive at the village and wanting to get all the points but as the season game by game went down, we were not getting the points and there's so many games that we played well, we had to get the points but it was not to be. I think in our last two games also, I thought we dominated the games, we had clear chances to score goals we did not score the goals. So, the mood in the camp is a little bit higher than it was before," the coach explained.

It will be for the third time in the four seasons that Chiefs would have finished eighth on the log, as they managed to at least finish fifth in the 2021/2022 season when Stuart Baxter returned for his second stint.