Nedbank Semi-final Preview: Kaizer Chiefs vs Free State Stars

All roads lead to Moses Mabhidha stadium on Saturday night. As the season draws to a close and becoming increasingly imminent that the Mamelodi boys would bag this campaign’s PSL title; everyone else is looking to put their hands on the next best thing. The Nedbank Cup is South Africa’s equivalent of the English FA Cup and the journey to the final resumes this weekend with Chief and FS Stars taking it onto the turf of Durban.

Amakhosi (Chiefs) are sitting on fourth place in the league, three points above the Ea Lla Koto (Stars) who are fifth. Chiefs fell out of the title race early on after a slow start and are desperately looking out to end the season with some silverware to console the Soweto fans. On the other hand, FS Stars are in the hunt for their first trophy since Coca-Cola Cup (now Telkom Knockout) success back in 1994. They have however enjoyed a stellar campaign, bound to wind up the league, nine places above their last season’s 14th place finish. It’s just that they have not been able to beat Chiefs in their last 10 league matches.

With the current FS Stars boss, Luc Eymael tipped to replace Steve Komphela at Chiefs - there could be much more at stake here. Kick-off time is 6:15 GMT.