The Slovaks open their Group F campaign against Ricki Herbert's outsiders and know a win will be crucial if they are to qualify from a group also containing Italy and Paraguay,

Weiss, whose team arrived in South Africa today, told cas.sk: "We will try to win playing offensively and if we do that we have created a good starting point. But I also expect the same (approach) from our opponent.

"Although it will be tough match, I think we have a better team. Any failure by us will complicate the situation and it would mean in the other two games we would have to try something different."