Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Miguel Cardoso appears to have sent a warning to Kaizer Chiefs ahead of the Nedbank Cup semi-finals encounter.
Chiefs will be hoping Sundowns have fitness concerns regarding key players after a demanding CAF Champions League quarter-final against Esperance on Tuesday .
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However, judging from Cardoso's tone on what to expect from his team, given these continental fixture circumstances, the Portuguese could well field his best team.
"Being a coach at Sundowns helps because there is performance context permanently. Everybody will be thinking only and mainly on the Nedbank Cup match, no one will be thinking about whatever will happen after," Cardoso told journalists in a Nedbank Cup pre-match press conference.
"I have a total conscience that the way you do things day by day will always influence what will be ahead and I want to have, over the weekend, a positive influence on what we have to do ahead.
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"So, we need to take ourselves to the top, understand the strategy to adopt, how to approach the game, how we can overcome the difficulties we will face, take a look at what we have done the previous time," he added.
