{"id":32987,"date":"2025-08-25T21:25:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/?p=32987"},"modified":"2025-08-25T21:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:25:50","slug":"chiefs-await-wounded-sundowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/2025\/08\/25\/chiefs-await-wounded-sundowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs await wounded Sundowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_32988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32988\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-25-at-19.38.28-770x513.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-25-at-19.38.28-770x513.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-25-at-19.38.28-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-25-at-19.38.28.jpeg 1083w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Backpagepix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kaizer Chiefs assistant coach, Cedric Kaze, says Wednesday\u2019s league clash against champions, Mamelodi Sundowns will serve as the perfect measure of the team\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n<p>Chiefs, head into the fixture at FNB Stadium with confidence, having secured three consecutive wins over Stellenbosch FC, Polokwane City and Richards Bay FC.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilians come into this fixture licking their wounds after Orlando Pirates dumped them out of the MTN8 cup competition in the semifinals, over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSundowns are always a very good opponent to see the progress that we have made. We want to play these kinds of games to see where we are at,\u201d said Kaze.<\/p>\n<p>Chiefs will also be boosted by the return of head coach, Nasreddine Nabi, who had taken time off after his wife was involved in an accident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe approach is always the same. It\u2019s true that the coach is here, but the selection doesn\u2019t change just that now he is physically here. We talked every day when he was away,\u201d the assistant coach said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by: Ntsako Mukhari<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaizer Chiefs assistant coach, Cedric Kaze, says Wednesday\u2019s league clash against champions, Mamelodi Sundowns will serve as the perfect measure of the team\u2019s progress. Chiefs, head into the fixture at FNB Stadium with confidence, having secured three consecutive wins over Stellenbosch FC, Polokwane City and Richards Bay FC. The Brazilians ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-25-at-19.38.28.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32989,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32987\/revisions\/32989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}