Kumasi's Sports Stadium, a stronghold of African football, is the venue for Sunday's second leg of the Cup Winners Cup final between Asante Kotoko and Wydad Casablanca.

And it promises to be a hot reception for Moroccan raiders Wydad, who take a slender 1-0 advantage into the game.

While the first leg in Casablanca was played on a muddy pitch, the conditions will be very different this time around.

And the scorching sun and hard pitch, not to mention the thousands of cheering Kotoko supporters, will leave Wydad in no doubt that they are deep in enemy territory.

Wydad will not only have to battle the conditions, they will also face a Kotoko side desperate to claim their first Cup Winners Cup crown.

And the former African champions have prepared intensively for Sunday's game, playing friendlies against the national teams of Equatorial Guinea and Ghana as well as Gabonese club FC105.

The Porcupines, as Kotoko are popularly known, have some injury worries ahead of the clash with Wydad.

Striker Nana Arhin Duah has a heel problem while Shilla Alhassan and Mohamed Hamza have not trained for three days.

But at least Michael Osei has recovered.

Meanwhile, Wydad coach Oscar Fullone says he will not be relying too heavily on his side's lead from the first leg.

"The first-leg result is no longer important," said the Argentine.

"We have to play on Sunday as if the game in Casablanca was a goalless draw."

With his experience of coaching Ivorian club Asec Abidjan, Fullone knows what to expect in Kotoko's den.

In 1998 - the year he led Asec to success in the African Champions League - he played a friendly against Kotoko in Kumasi.

But even that that inside knowledge may not be enough to stop a determined Kotoko team from claiming victory on home soil.