Having scored two goals against them already last season, Keagan Dolly will once again be hoping to get onto the scoresheet against Orlando Pirates in the Soweto Derby, although this time he could be using a new trick altogether.
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The start of the 2022/23 season has seen Dolly use the dead ball situations to deadly effect.
Last season, the 29-year-old was the club's regular penalty taker, although he has relinquished that responsibility this campaign, with the club's stand-in captain proving to be lethal from free kicks.
Dolly has dispatched three free kicks so far this season
Now, with Pirates on the horizon, he will be hoping to replicate the brilliance he has displayed already this campaign.
"With the free kicks, it's a sense of feeling. I don't go into the game thinking, yes, this is my chance to score. If we are lucky to get a free kick close to the box, I'm ready to take it. It also starts at training; I stay behind and take a few set-pieces with some of the guys and lucky enough some go in and some don't," he told members of the media at the Soweto Derby press conference on Thursday.
In addition, Dolly has revealed the pressure that comes with playing in a game of this magnitude where 90 000 supporters will fill the FNB Stadium on Saturday, looking at it as a privilege rather than a burden.
"For us at Chiefs, we always say that the pressure is a privilege. We are all privileged top be part of this derby. We are some of the lucky few that get the opportunity to play in a sold-out FNB Stadium and that's what we live on at Chiefs. We always tell each other that we are privileged and it's a team sport at the end of the day, if one is not doing well on the day, we try to encourage and uplift him," he added.
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Kick off for the match is at 15:30.
