IT could be seen as just another ordinary match. But in fact, Platinum Stars and Mamelodi Sundowns have the biggest challenge up their sleeves.
Despite fact that it is a top-versus-bottom Absa Premiership clash, there is pride at stake in both camps.
Dikwena, who will visit Sundowns at Loftus Versfeld Stadium on Saturday (6pm), have internal politics that they have to deal with – club on sale and top officials probed by crime intelligence agencies.
Sundowns have just unveiled a truck load of new signings – Jeremy Brockie, Aubrey Ngoma, Siyabonga Zulu and Gaston Sirino – and they will need to show class and quality, even if the new diamonds don’t play.
Dikwena are languishing at the bottom of the PSL log with a meagre 15 points from 17 matches, and Downs are uncomfortable at the top with 31 points – three more than second placed Free State Stars.
And in many occasions it has happened that the bottom clubs would cause a big upset and blow away the top teams – will happen in Tshwane tomorrow?
Stars midfielder Robert N’gambi warned his teammates to leave the club’s administration to administrators and focus on the job at hand – beat Sundowns.
He said: “Victory against them will lift our confidence to avoid relegation. We are playing one of the big teams in the country, and in Africa. But I am happy with the way things are going at the club, and the mentality of the players is very positive.
"We know that we have to fight for three points in all our matches, and the goal is to do the same against Downs. We have to beat teams like Sundowns if we want to grow our confidence levels and move away from the relegation zone.”
At this stage the most important favour the players could do for the club bosses, Royal Bafokeng Development Trust, is to save it from being relegated.
The 31-year-old N’gambi said the Hawks case and sale of the club must be left to office bearers, and not players.
“Players are indeed concerned with all these stories, but at the end of the day, we have a job to do,” he said.
