Polokwane City coach Phuti Mohafe reckons they are the underdogs ahead of Sunday’s MTN8 quarter-final tie against Mamelodi Sundowns, saying it will be a ‘father and son affair’ with Manqoba Mngqithi.
Mohafe led Rise and Shine to an impressive eighth-place finish in the previous campaign to set up a Wafa Wafa last eight clash with Sundowns.
The former Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila assistant coach believes this weekend’s tie is an opportunity to show his “father” that he can think better, saying to beat Sundowns as underdogs will be a massive achievement for City.
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“Coach Manqoba has been my mentor, he is my mentor,” Mohafe told iDiski Times.
“And I’m going to face him, eish that man. On Sunday, it’s a father and son relationship. So you have to show the father that ‘my father I can think better than you’.
“So it’s going to be tough but for us as Polokwane City to beat coach Manqoba and beat Sundowns is going to be massive.
“It will be a great achievement for us and we need to start where we left off. They beat us 2-0 at Peter Mokaba, we drew with them 0-0 at Loftus and now we are going there again we must surprise them as underdogs.”
The clash will commence at 15:00.
