watch Fifa Club World Cup FinalVenue: Zayed Sports City, Abu Dhabi Date: Saturday, 18 December Kick-off: 1700 GMT
African champions TP Mazembe take on European champions Inter Milan in a Club World Cup final layered with extra meaning in Abu Dhabi.
Victory for Mazembe will make them the first non-European or South American team to claim this crown.
Inter coach Rafael Benitez, whose team is without the injured Wesley Sneijder, expects a stern test from the Congolese side.
"They're a good team, very strong physically," he said.
A win for TP Mazembe will also pile further pressure on the Inter coach, whose team are struggling to match their extraordinary exploits of last season under previous boss Jose Mourinho.
"We can't be anything but proud to be playing against the first African team [to reach the Club World Cup final]," Benitez said.
TP Mazembe vs Inter Milan
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We were watching them in the African Champions League and also in these games [in the Club World Cup].
"There are two or three players who can make the difference and the rest of the team who are behind them are working very hard, so clearly it will be a tough game."
Benitez has been very keen to portray this as a 50/50 game but Mazembe have been equally insistent that they are the underdogs.
"Inter are European champions and we will give them all the respect they deserve for that," Mazembe's Senegalese coach Lamine N'Diaye said.
"We are not the favourites but we were not favourites in our two previous games."
Mazembe won both those games in some style and N'Diaye acknowledged the weight of expectation across Africa.
"We represent Africa and we hope to seize the opportunity to represent our continent positively," he said.
Mazembe have a full squad to choose from and N'Diaye will restore Zambian international Stopilla Sunzu to his starting line after the midfielder was sent off in their opening game.
Aside from the injured Sneijder, Inter are at full strength.
In the third place play-off match, Internacional of Brazil will play South Korea's Seongnam Ilhwa.