Kaizer Chiefs coach Ernst Middendorp believes that his side’s failure to finish within the Absa Premiership top eight is a disaster.

The Soweto giants dropped to ninth place on the log after Chippa United beat them 1-0 in their final game of the season on Saturday.

The result saw Chiefs finish the league season off in a disappointing fashion which Middendorp was quick to highlight when speaking to SuperSport TV after the game.

‘It’s a disaster, absolutely a huge disappointment for not being in the top eight and not being part of the competition at the beginning of the season.

‘We take it. [We] hit the goalpost, there was also a chance to have a penalty, dominating and attacking but in the end we didn’t score. Now we’re standing here out of the top eight. Certain circumstances you can’t influence but I don’t want to comment furthermore.

‘We couldn’t convert the chances we create and that’s not only today. We can probably go ten or 11 games in the second half of the season.”

‘Certain circumstances you can’t influence, after ten minutes I was not even standing up and the fourth [official] came to me and asked, ‘Do you want to see the stands?’ I said: ‘What do you mean?’ But good we haven’t scored and that’s the main issue we have to consider today.

‘You can’t expect me after the game to reason about the entire season. There was a change [of coaches] in December and we had a short target the Nedbank Cup. If we can be able to make this Cup ours then in the end… it’s a little bit, this [not finishing in the top eight] is disappointing,’ he concluded.