"For now, we still want to check if everyone is ready and able to stick to how we want to play this weekend," Khuse said. "If that happens, we will stick with using the youngsters approach and rest the older guys.
"But, if during the course of the week, things are not working according to how we want them to, then we will have to bring back the older guys into the starting line-up.
"However, you have to understand that we want to play a quick game, which we get when playing the younger players. With the older players, since they were playing week-in week-out, they were starting to slow down a bit and we felt that the younger boys can play quicker.
"The thing is, we want speed in our team because most of the teams we play against tend to defend with the whole team. Once we catch them on the counter, we have to use pace, which is something that the younger guys do well.
"We also thought about changing the youngsters in the last game so as to prepare them for the future," said Khuse.
Khuse adds that for this weekend's game, being a cup match, the approach will change, though the mission remains the same – to win this game and go ahead to defend the trophy that they are seeking to win a third consecutive time.
"A cup is a once-off tie, so we play aware that once you lose you are out, which is something we don't want. So the approach cannot be the same in the sense that in the cup we have to show that we want it more, but then we also have to be cautious not to open up at the back.
"It will be good thing for us if we can win it for the third time in a row and fourth time overall.
"The players want this trophy so badly because we have the ambition to win all the trophies this season along with the League. Our team is ready for Platinum Stars.
"In every game for us there is pressure for the team to perform but our players can adapt to that, plus we have no injury worries," Khuse said.
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