Kaizer Chiefs head coach Arthur Zwane has opened up on the resurgence of defender Siyabonga Ngezana.
Ngezana did not have a good start to the season after his costly errors saw him lose his place in the line-up.
However, Zwane did not lose hope in the Amakhosi academy product and has reinstalled him to the team and recently switched him from his regular right-back slot to centre-back.
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The 25-year old has found form in his new role alongside Edmilson Dove, with Zitha Kwinika pushed out wide at right-back.
Zwane suggested that he analysed Ngezana's strengths and weaknesses in relation to other defenders and managed to find a balance to accommodate the lanky defender.
"Like any other player, when you're a coach you work with a player, you look at the weaknesses and strengths of a player," Zwane told the media at the Nedbank Cup quarter-final draw.
"Everyone has got weaknesses and strengths but it's how you compliment that player. How do you make sure that you as a coach you make him realize that this is his strength and you must make sure that his strengths covers his weaknesses.
"And also you pair him up with players that can compliment him and the very same player must be able to compliment others and then the chemistry will just gel in a way that you want it," he said.
'Mangethe' continued and stressed that it's important that the functions of the team comes first before individual brilliance to get the right confidence in the team.
"But if you're not going to get it that way, you depend on individual brilliance all the time, it kills the momentum because when things are not functioning with that individual then it kills the entire squad in terms of confidence," he went on.
"But if we know this is our pattern of play, these are our strengths and weaknesses and when we're on song this is how we hurt people, it's gonna work, one way or another. And then individual brilliance comes in and a lot of creativity comes in, so that's what we're trying to do," he said.
"This is what has been happening in the game for many years, we just have to polish it to another level," he added.
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