Mamelodi Sundowns legend Roger Feutmba expects both Lucas Ribeiro and Relebohile Mofokeng to bring some spark at Loftus Versfeld Stadium on Saturday.
Only six points separates leaders Sundowns and second-Pirates at the top of the Betway Premiership table heading into this afternoon's clash.
Feutmba says if the 2024/25 season was to end today, Ribeiro would edge Mofokeng for the Footballer Of The Season Award.
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"For a player to shine it's very importatnt to take into consideration many aspects, the quality of the entire team, who are your teammates? And because of all that I will go for Ribeiro as my first round footballer of the season," Feutmba tells KickOff.
"Mofokeng is doing well, a very good young player, still coming up, but Riveiro is a little bit much mature in the game.
"Ribeiro's positioning so far has been fantastic. He is more mature. Maturity counts a lot in football.
"But that doesn't take away the quality of Mofokeng. I like Mofokeng a lot because football is about creativity.
"The penalty Pirates had against Kaizer Chiefs in the last moments of the game, that perfect control Mofokeng had on the ball taking it behind the defender, he forced the defender to pull him. That's the intelligence of the young man. In two years time we will have a very, very fantastic young player in Mofokeng.
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"But for now Ribeiro in terms of power, in terms of strength, maturity, he is above Mofokeng. He makes better player of the season than him. But both of them they are very creative players.
"We going to have a very good game at Loftus, we need that level of competition to attract more foreign followers to our football.
"It becomes boring when you have only one team dominating. I believe at the end of the day Sundowns quality will win it."