“It’s only normal for supporters and the country, and every [person who loves] Kaizer Chiefs to be panicking about our situation now because it looks like things are not coming right.
“But it’s a big brand — we don’t want to disgrace ourselves and embarrass the brand. One confidence that I have is that this team cannot be relegated.
“I know from the response of the players and their mentality right now that we are ready to take a different step into the next game. So relegation is not something we are panicking about at the moment.”
Asked about Chiefs’ changeroom dialogue in such a tough season, Akpeyi said: “So far we have not been happy with ourselves because we’ve been down from the beginning of the season. We always make the change room a cemetery for ourselves, where it’s always cold.
“But we keep telling ourselves that we need to change to a different mentality into the next game and we’ve spoken to ourselves again. That’s [the strength] we have for now‚ that we have to keep [assuring] ourselves that we’re going to come right in the next game.
“We’ve talked to ourselves and we’ve tried to identify tour problems in every game we’ve been playing.
“But I think from the response of every single player, everything is coming right and we hope‚ as I said‚ that there’s going to be a turnaround in the next game.”
AmaZulu are in ninth place, with a win and a draw under new coach Benni McCarthy.