Orlando Pirates assistant coach Mandla Ncikazi appeared calm yesterday ahead of his first official Soweto derby against Kaizer Chiefs at FNB Stadium tomorrow at 3.30pm.
Even though he was on the bench when Pirates lost to Chiefs in the preseason Carling Black Label Cup in August, tomorrow's clash is entirely different and Ncikazi is aware of the expectations.
“It is not a normal fixture. You see that at training and you see that with the behaviour of the players: the silence when there is normal noise, the effort you see at training. Then it tells you that this is not the normal fixture.“Sometimes the fact that they don’t know what to expect much from us becomes an advantage, but what matters the most is the mental factors on the day of the match.
Pirates head into this fixture on the back of a 2-1 victory over Sekhukhune United on Tuesday, while Chiefs lost 1-0 to Stellenbosch the same day.“Your strength could be your weakness. We don’t want to fall into the trap thinking that since we won the previous match, then it gives us the right to win the next one,” he said.
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