Pahang have the advantage - Hodak

Giving his frank assessment, JDT head coach, Bojan Hodak, says defending FA Cup champions, Pahang, holds the advantage in tonight's potentially grudge match at Stadium Darul Makmur.

Says Hodak, " Pahang have the advantage as we shall be without two foreign strikers." Both Luciano and Diaz are injured.
 
However he believes "we can have a good result tonight". Reason; The local JDT players have been playing well. " Our local players are performing better than last year but foreign striker Diaz was much better last season," he notes. Diaz is due to leave JDT in the second transfer window. He will be replaced by Pato Rodriguez Santos.

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Also on the JDT crock list are local players like Aidil, Shakir and Amirul.

The injured players are not Hodak's only concerns.

"To play at home is always an advantage because you have massive fans' support. I just hope that after the game, we will not talk about the referee too." He claims that there were some controversial decisions in some previous matches against Pahang.

Pahang is definitely on a must-win mission.

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Team manager, Dato' Che Nasir says, " This is a knock-out competition. We must win and we should make full use of the home ground advantage." Head coach Zainal Abidin Hassan says his team will give their best shot.