While Gunners have won the Coke Cup before, ECCO are still searching for their first title although they came agonisingly close in 2007 when they lost to BMC in the final.
Gunners know that travelling to Francistown to face ECCO has always been a tough ask, but Uniao Flamengo Santos proved last weekend that the former league champions are not invincible at their home ground. Santos blasted ECCO 4-2 in a league match and Gunners would draw inspiration from the result. Gunners' coach, Daniel 'Chico' Nare does not see home ground counting in this encounter. "This is a cup game, it is a different ball game altogether. They are at home but I don't think that will work in their favour," Nare said. He acknowledged that ECCO has some good players but his charges are equal to the task. Nare said although ECCO beat them in their last visit to Francistown in the league, he does not foresee a repeat. ECCO won the league match 2-1 a fortnight ago.
