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Quote: CAPS United coach Lloyd Chitembwe has described Sundays Orange CAF Confederations Cup 1/8th round, return leg clash to be played at Rufaro stadium in Harare against Al Hilal of Sudan as a tall order. The Zimbabwean club trail Al Hilal a massive 5-0 from the first leg match played in Omdurman a fortnight ago and must match that score line without reply to force a post-match penalty decider as to who goes through to next month’s mini-league stage of the Confederations Cup. Chitembwe told Cafonline from Harare on Friday that he is under no illusions that a herculean task awaits his side against Al Hilal who reached the semifinals of last year’s Orange Champions League. "The game against Al Hilal will be very difficult and it is a tall order considering the result from the first leg," Chitembwe said. Chitembwe admitted that the departure of six key players to three South African clubs has hit the four-time Zimbabwean champions chances of advancing to the Confederations Cup mini-league stage next month. Most prominent on the half-a-dozen departures is their former star striker Nyasha Mushekwi who scored four goals for CAPS in the competition this season before moving to Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa last month. "We lost six very important players to South African clubs two to Ajax Cape Town, two to Mamelodi Sundowns and one to Moroka Swallows," Chitembwe said. "The most important thing right now is to start rebuilding the team and build from there with this game. This game will be specifically to build a new team for the future." And so the onus will be one promising talents like midfielder Billiart Khama and striker Thabani Goredema to step up in front of the home fans on Sunday while Chitembwe is also banking on the fitness of veteran forward Leonard Tsipa who missed the first leg away to Al Hilal due to injury.