City coach Taylor brimming with confidence ahead of Pirates clash

Cape Town City FC coach Ian Taylor is optimistic that his side can beat both Soweto giants Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs in the DStv Diski Challenge.

The Citizens Reserves will travel from Cape Town to the capital city, Pretoria where they will face Pirates in a top-of-the-table clash on Saturday at Lucas Moripe Stadium.

Kick-off for the match is at 12H00.

Last Saturday The Citizens thumped Chiefs 2-0 in the second match of the season to move to No 1 position on the log.

With Pirates coming their away, Taylor does not doubt his youngsters that they will emerge victorious on the day to maintain the No 1 position on the log.

Talking to the website on Wednesday morning Taylor said their pre-season hard work is now paying off.

Taylor said: “We are still very much in building the team and developing the players. It is a good start I think it’s because of the things we did in pre-season. We started well as a team, but we still have a lot of aspects to improve on.

“But the confident is good in the boys. As much we do not know what to expect from Pirates, but we can beat anyone at the moment.”

The coach revealed that teen sensation Luphumlo “Kaka” Sifunda will be a regular this season after spending the past season playing in the SAB League team.

Taylor revealed: “Kaka [Sifumba] has been good so far. He was out injured during pre-season so now we are looking at helping him gain enough mileage, and start scoring and creating he will then move to the first team.

“We are expecting a lot from him as our number 109 and so far he has done well.”

Sifumba who was the youngster player in the Diski Challenge at the age of 15 two seasons ago is expected to be among the top players this season as he is now part of the diski challenge team fulltime. In the past seasons, he made cameo appearances.

Pirates on the other end would be pinning their hopes on new sensation Relebohile Ratomo who started the season on a high scoring a brace on his debut.

Pirates are second on the log with four points after two matches, they are two points behind early pace-setters City.