One Soweto giant will bite the dust and one will advance to the final of the Telkom Knockout when Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates lock horns at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Saturday (3 pm kickoff).
The winners will face either Wits or Baroka FC in the final on the December 8 at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth.
Chiefs and Pirates are on an identical mission, both gunning to end their barren run of trophies.
Amakhosi have endured turbulent times in the past three seasons while Bucs have experienced perennial pain for four years.
The mission is clear: both sides want to end their trophy droughts and have to do it at the expense of one another.
Chiefs haven’t lifted a trophy since 2014/15 when they won the MTN8 and the PSL, while Pirates’ last triumph came in 2014 when they lifted the Nedbank Cup.
Milutin “Micho” Sredojevic is in his second season as coach of Orlando Pirates.
Last season he failed to deliver the goods for the Buccaneers and the Serb has already missed out on the MTN8 this season. But Pirates are on a roll and beat Chiefs in the PSL earlier this season.
Micho will want to get the monkey off his back and win his maiden triumph as coach of Pirates, but Chiefs’ Italian tactician Giovanni Solinas will have a huge say in that.
Solinas is in his debut season with Amakhosi but the pressure is mounting for him.
This is a real opportunity for him to ease that pressure and silence his doubters by beating Pirates and going into the final and winning it.