Larsen – whose charges were handed a 2-1 defeat by the Premiership newcomers – is confident his players will be equal to the huge task of playing against the defending League Champions.
The two teams will lock horns at the Free State Stadium on Sunday. (Kick-off is at 15h00).
Larsen believes the mental attitude of his players will be different against Pirates, as they are always motivated by the prospect of playing a big team.
"As a coach you don't need to motivate players when they come up against a big club like Pirates, playing against them is a motivation in itself," Larsen tells the Bloemfontein Celtic website.
"We will look to return to winning ways when we face Pirates this weekend. It will be important for us to display the same mentality and winning attitude that we showed in our last home match against Ajax Cape Town, because every game we play is important.
"We treat all the teams the same and Pirates will not be the exception. We will treat them with the same level of professionalism like we do to any other clubs," he adds.
Larson points out that his charges have in the past managed to collect maximum points at the expense of big teams such as Pirates.
"We have proven in the past that we can beat any big team in this division. Last December, we defeated both Pirates and Supersport before the Christmas break.
"I believe that we can beat them again this time around. But we need to be on top of our game to achieve that," Larsen says.
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ORLANDO Pirates supporters, The Ghost, are going back to school where they will be lectured on spectator behaviour, with the emphasis on do's and don'ts during the matches.
The first of the series of lectures will take place in Bloemfontein at the Batho Location community hall on Sunday, starting at 10am.It will be addressed by the leadership of Pirates and Premier Soccer League employee Phillip Masimong, who has been invited in his capacity as head of security.
Some of the Pirates players will also be present. Supporters of Amabhakabhaka are invited to attend the meeting.
"We have decided to embark on a road show to educate our supporters about the do's and don'ts at the stadiums," said Pirates communications manager Mickey Modisane.
"The club has been summoned to appear before the league's disciplinary committee on numerous occasions in the past 12 months because of spectator behaviour.
"We thought we need to organise meetings with our supporters to explain to them that we won't tolerate ill-discipline.
"It is costing the club a lot of money," said Modisane, who will visit Bloemfontein today with the club's marketing and public relations team
UP THE BUCS!
after this game, Bobby Solomon will have to take over from Larsen Because Roger is not reclaiming the glory he was hired to raise the BAR.
Pirates does n't reclaim glory, It raises the BAR
Sunday will be your last day @ Celtic.
WITHOUT REFEREES & OLD AGE DEFENCE(BOOTH,WESTERVELD,MHLONGO) THEY ARE NOTHING!
If they can't beat Chippa how do he think they can beat the Undisputed Champions of this soil. He is talking like someone on a new WoolWorths underwear.
How many Pirates supporters are going to be at the Free State Stadium against Celtics on Sunday?
Remember Orlando(Home where the team was born) only had 4532 fans against Ajax on Tuesday
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KING? at Brazilittos funeral, the best frend speech was given by his gogo