Kaizer Chiefs coach Steve Komphela has explained his decision to implement a more attacking approach after he introduced Gustavo Paez for Daniel Cardoso.

The Glamour Boys were eliminated from the Telkom Knockout after suffering a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Bidvest Wits as James Keene’s first-half secured Gavin Hunt’s side a place in the final.

The 49-year-old coach believes he made the right decision to go on the attack and introduce Gustavo Paez to replace Daniel Cardoso after being reduced to 10 men as Wiseman Meyiwa was shown his marching orders.

“You had to be positive, you’re losing, it’s a knockout competition. You had to make a choice, you compromise one of the defenders, I thought it worked well,” Komphela told SuperSport TV after the game.

“Even when we suffered one man we could have scored here, the chance that Zuma had when he hit the crossbar, and the one where he clashed with the goalkeeper. In matches of this calibre you have to take one of them.”

“If you’re one man down, in a game of 10 people and there’s ten available, then it means each one of us has to give an extra 10 percent so we can complete the eleven on the field, so we need to create an extra player by effort. We did and it worked, I think the players did well to create that additional player we lost,” he concluded.