Former Kaizer Chiefs striker Mike Rapatsa has shared his thoughts on the growth of Wandile Duba, outlining what he believes will unlock the young forward’s scoring potential.
Despite an injury setback, the 20-year-old has enjoyed his football under coach Nasreddine Nabi this season. He has already scored five goals in the Betway Premiership with an assist.
Duba was on the score sheet when Kaizer Chiefs beat rivals Mamelodi Sundowns 2-1 in the Nedbank Cup semi-finals on Sunday. For his efforts, Duba was voted Man of the Match.
“Duba for me is a quality striker. Remember what makes a quality striker is quality midfielders and quality supply. But he is being failed by his own midfielders,” Rapatsa told FARPost.
WHAT WANDILE DUBA NEEDS TO SCORE MORE GOALS AT KAIZER CHIEFS
“For a striker to score a goal, he needs to get passes. Even if you can be skilful, you can’t always turn and score because he is always closely marked by players. They need to work for him. Individually, for me, he has all that it takes to be a good striker.”
MIKE RAPATSA WANTS MORE CREATIVITY FROM AMAKHOSI MIDFIELDERS TO HELP STRIKERS SCORE
“We have so many attacking players in the team. Duba sometimes has to go solo to score goals like he did against Sundowns after he intercepted a pass from [Lucas] Suarez. Was that a creative goal? No,” continued Rapatsa.
“When you look at the entire game, there was also no creativity. He was not given forward passes that allowed him to be one-on-one with the goalkeeper. Why don’t we always get passes coming from the middle that allow our fast wing players like Duba to go one-on-one with the goalkeeper?” He asked.
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