Kaizer Chiefs accused of ‘cooking’ Petersen injury: ‘He can take a season off!’

Kaizer Chiefs confirmed that they will be without their two key players for some time owing to injuries.

“Goalkeeper Brandon Petersen sustained a knee injury during training on Tuesday morning and will be sidelined for an estimated four to six weeks,” Amakhosi confirmed.

“Wandile Duba has been ruled out for approximately two weeks after picking up a hip and groin injury. The Club extends its best wishes to Petersen and Duba for a speedy recovery and looks forward to welcoming them back to action soon.”

Renaldo can now get his chance

A section of the club supporters are not convinced that Petersen’s injury is genuine. Others feel this is a massive opportunity for Renaldo Leaner to underline his worth. Have a look at what they said, as sampled by Afrik-Foot.

Brandon Peterson faked an injury, or Chiefs are just saying he is injured to protect him from embarrassment – Tee Man 

I think it’s a cooked injury. They want to give him a few weeks off after the blunders and misfortunes he’s been having, but his absence will need to be explained and justified, so they came up with this. I might be wrong – Ngwane

That is a blessing in disguise for Kaizer Chiefs. Petersen can even take a season off – Nguse John

At least Renaldo Leaner is going to get a chance to be in the goalposts – Richard Mashaba

I see Kaizer Chiefs fans are happy about this, but they don’t know that their team hasn’t lost a Soweto derby with Petersen in goal –  Gumede Qwabe    

Someone decided to take matters into his own hands

Others have taken their jokes a notch higher, claiming Siphesihle Ndlovu is taking matters into his hands in training.

Speedy recovery to Wandile Duba. As for the other one, we owe Hugo Broos an apology as Mexican fans – Thato The-Rabbinator Ramahlo Jr. 

They used to say Yanela Mbuthuma is competing with Petersen for clean sheets. Now Petersen is competing with Mbuthuma for most goal contributions – Skhumbuzo Dieh Shabangu

Someone decided to take matters into his own hands and deal with the problem decisively ku training – Sboniseni Gaxa Mgema

Siphesihle Ndlovu is dealing with them one by one. First it was Phili, now it’s Petersen and Duba. Ndlovu is dealing with them in a training with rough tackles – Sipho Mavuso 

Petersen knows what he is doing. He wants the new goalkeeper to be exposed – Deejay-Fred Nc Serekego