Bafana Bafana's opponents for this afternoon's friendly international at FNB Stadium have expressed their desire to maintain their impressive line of results against South Africa.
Sierra Leone could be no heavyweight on the continent with their biggest achievement being qualification for the AFCON finals thrice, but they have had the better of Bafana.
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The Leone Stars have never lost against Bafana in four matches.
They were winners in a 2010 World Cup/AFCON qualifier in June 2008 when the legendary Mohammed Kallon scored the sole goal against the Joel Santana-coached Bafana.
In the return in Tshwane, the two nations played out a goalless draw before another similar stalemate in October 2010 in another AFCON qualifier in Freetown.
A third goalless draw followed in Mbombela under Pitso Mosimane when Bafana thought the draw had been enough to qualify only to find out that they had not understood the rules and thus not qualified.
"We will look to maintain that record into the game tomorrow," says Steven Caulker, who is the captain of the visitors.
"I wasn't aware that we have had such a good record against South Africa, and it is important because we are playing for our country.
"We want to get results and on a good day, we want to get the result and keep a clean sheet.
"But then this is progress and not perfection.
"We looking to going to get a result tomorrow," says Caulker.
Caulker was born in England and has had spells with Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool.
His coach John Keister was also in a positive mood ahead of this match despite only having all his players on the eve of the game following traveling issues.
"Results are important because we want to make winning a habit but again this is about us preparing for the qualifiers in March and we want to look at players.
"This is a new team and the third time we are coming together as a group, so we are building together for the future.
"These are the games that you want to play as footballers.
"We are happy to come here and give a good account of ourselves.
"These games are an opportunity for development and progression.
"We want to get results while we are developing and tomorrow is a chance for us to make a statement such a big nation," says Keister.
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