Baroka FC interim head coach Amukelani 'Jay Jay' Hlungwani has opened up on why their Nedbank Cup Last 16 encounter won't be a walk in the park for Orlando Pirates.
The Motsepe Foundation Championship outfit will be aiming to progress to the quarter-finals of the Nedbank Cup when they travel to Soweto to take on defending champions Pirates at Orlando Stadium on Saturday.
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Due to their status as a lower division side, Baroka are considered overwhelming underdogs in the tie, but Hlongwane is convinced they can pull off an upset.
"The most important thing in football is that the grind is on the ground if you prepare well for it," Hlungwani told journalists at the Nedbank Cup briefing earlier this week.
"If you look at Pirates and look at ourselves, we have similarities in terms of structure, the philosophy, the ideology. It's about who wants it most on the day.
"If you look at Baroka and Pirates, they have this history. I think in the Telkom [Knockout] Cup, Baroka did well against them and there is another one, I think Baroka stole it in the dying minutes. So, there is still that history," he went on.
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Hlungwani believes on the day it will be about who wants it more, noting also that cup games are about who starts on the front foot.
"If we go to Orlando and give ourselves that chance in terms of putting effort with the right attitude, the right mentality, working hard as a team, and suffering as a group, then I think anything is possible."
Kick-off is at 15:00.