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The coach says his preparations for the match were “compromised” by the absence of eight players in national duty, but admits: “A big club has to live with that nowadays. There is little we can do.”

Chiefs tried unsuccessfully to have their match postponed.

Amakhosi will be missing Itumeleng Khune, whose sister passed away recently.

“The players from the national team are bit tired but fit for the game against Bidvest Wits,” Baxter tells the club’s official website.

“I was pleased with the performance of some of the players during the Macufe Cup. Some really pushed hard something that we appreciate as the technical team. We are moving in a period where we will have lot of games, in November alone I think we have five.”

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Chiefs have won the Telkom Knockout three times in the past five years, and Baxter says his team are “going all out” to win it again.

Amakhosi beat the Clever Boys 3-1 in the League in September, but Baxter says they are not taking the game lightly.

“We are playing against a tough opposition in Bidvest Wits. They have assembled a good team with exceptional players. The game will be different to the League game we played a couple of weeks ago.

“We are thinking that we are in it and we are going all out to win it, if we have to we have to go all out and win at Bidvest on Friday evening.”

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