Arnett Gardens' Lennox Creary (right) collides with Harbour View's Jermaine Hue. - File

The appetites of local football fans will be tantalised today as four of the country's top teams will do battle at the Edward Seaga Sports Complex for the right to meet in the final of the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Claro Champions League.

Defending champions Harbour View will face perennial Premier League unit Arnett Gardens in a 6 p.m. encounter. That will be preceded by the matchup between Premier League powerhouse Waterhouse and the lone super league team still in contention, Cavalier, at 4 p.m.

new strategy

Harbour View's coach Donovan Hayles is grateful for the opportunity to assess some of his players ahead of the start of the new Premier League season and fine-tune his new strategy.

"We see this as a pre-season training game, which is quite good. So I must laud KSAFA and Claro for putting on this pre-season, highly competitive, practice for the Premier League teams," Hayles said.

"Right now, I am developing a new strategy and approach, and it worked well in the last game. So I would like to see how it works against the Arnett team," he added.

self-belief

The Junglists have been the most prolific team in the competition, thanks to a 11-0 drubbing of Meadforest in their last outing, which moved their tally to 15 goals for and four against. Arnett's head coach, Paul 'Tegat' Davis, is pleased with his team's scoring form and hopes this will give them the self-belief going forward.

"It is nice to see the team going back into a scoring mood; I hope that can do well for our confidence for the coming fixtures," Davis said.

He added: "The game is important, as we are playing for a cup, so it is important that we go out there and try and win the semi-finals to go to the finals".

Waterhouse are high on confidence coming into their encounter, after getting by defending Premier League champions Tivoli Gardens 2-1 in the previous round. New head coach Donovan Duckie is, however, not taking their opponents lightly.

"The game against Cavalier definitely speaks for itself, it is a semi-final, so we are not taking them for granted. Not because we are playing in a higher division; that doesn't count for anything," Duckie said.

Buoyed by an open-round 3-1 win over Harbour View, Cavalier's coach David Laylor believes they have what it takes to beat their more fancied opponents.

Laylor said: "We are just going to play our game of football and then just wait on the result and see what it is, because if we play good quality football we should be able to outplay a Waterhouse team".