Goal on Saturday.
“It will be a good result to take to Tanzania because we know how difficult Simba are when playing at home.”
On his reflection of the game, Eymael, who also coached Polokwane City, Free State Stars and Black Leopards in the PSL, said: “Simba didn’t play last weekend because the derby was cancelled but Chiefs had to play on Wednesday so it will be a tough game.
“Simba rested at the weekend and Chiefs played so, will Simba take the advantage, or they will be affected by missing the derby? Well, I don’t know but it will not be easy for the two sides.
“If you look at their Champions League matches they are changing and playing differently from their domestic matches which is probably why they are here [in the quarter-finals], so we have seen what they can do in the league and in the Caf competition and we have worked out plans to deal with them,” Da Rosa told
Goal.
“We don’t want to lose focus by relying on their mixed run of results and thinking we have an easy match ahead of us, we must be focused to do our job.
“All the teams in this tournament are strong and we give a lot of respect to Kaizer Chiefs but we are excited and we want to reach the top in this tournament and we are ready to play with them.
Simba SC coach Didier Gomes Da Rosa states why they arrived in South Africa earlier than usual for their Caf Champions League fixture against Kaizer Chiefs.
Goal.
“The Mainland league is a marathon, you fight to win and get points and whoever get more points at end of the season, wins the title, but in Champions League it is a knockout competition, you win you proceed to the next stage, you lose you are knocked out, so this are two different competitions and not playing against Yanga will not affect us at all.
“So we always prepare differently when playing in the two competitions and we have already forgotten what happened against Yanga, we respect them, they are a great team but now our focus is on Chiefs, it is the task we are focused on.”