Football fans will tell you that there's nothing better than hammering your closest rival in their own backyard.
And when the added incentive is that it will take you within touching distance of your rival's own league title, a victory for Kaizer Chiefs over Orlando Pirates on Saturday (FNB Stadium, 4pm) will surely taste even sweeter for Amakhosi supporters.
"Backyards" are, of course, in the South African soccer world, rather inconsistent, sometimes non-existent things. After all, it is Chiefs who have played most of their home games at FNB Stadium this season, including their "home" game against Pirates where Kabamba Musasa's late, late header clinched victory.
There are those who could, with some justification, argue that any "away" fixtures played by Chiefs at FNB are therefore slightly ridiculous, not to say absurd, and certainly the tie against Black Leopards here at the beginning of March could fit into that category.
But Chiefs-Pirates games of recent years have been played here, and this stadium is the only one truly capable of housing the massive crowd that the Soweto derby attracts.
So this is Pirates' "home" game, and in a sense victory for Amakhosi on Saturday will be like Arsenal's title-winning draw at White Hart Lane last weekend.
While Chiefs will not secure the league, a victory will take them eight points clear at the top, with five games to go.
To lose the title from there would, to put it mildly, be a major disaster.
Chiefs' success this season has been built not on the rock-'n'-roll of attack (in fact, none of the Amakhosi's strikers has managed more than a miserable, not to say pathetic, four goals this season), but on the extraordinary exploits of a
defence that has conceded just five league goals in 24 matches thus far.
It is this defence that Pirates floundered on in the first derby of the season, and with the addition of the seemingly unflappable Derrick Spencer, it is this defence that the Buccaneers will have to overcome tomorrow if they are to put a dent in their rivals' title hopes.
Pirates have been on something of a goalscoring rampage of late, but this has been on the continent against sides of far less quality than Chiefs.
Coach Augusto Palacios will doubtless consider this when deciding whether to throw young Lebohang Mokoena into the fray, but it may well be worth risking him up front, given that Jimmy Kauleza and James Mothibi have hardly been hitting the net regularly for Pirates this season.
Mokoena's pace should certainly prove a test for Amakhosi's defensive record breakers. Chiefs, meanwhile, need to resolve their own attacking problems after ambling to a 0-0 draw against Silver Stars on the weekend.
Coach Ted Dumitru bemoaned the enforced absence of winger Arthur Zwane after that game, and, of course, Dumitru has had to do without Jabu Pule for much of the season.
With John "Shoes" Moshoeu also losing his early season oomph and Junior Khanye still new to the scene, Chiefs have struggled to create chances, with three goalless draws in their last seven games.
And David Radebe, Patrick Mayo, Sibusiso Dlamini and Kabamba Musasa have all failed to exactly set the house on fire this season. With this in mind, Dumitru could turn to his latest striker, Collins Mbesuma, whose huge physical presence could ruffle a notoriously fragile Pirates defence.
As with most derbies between these two, expect a tight encounter.
It could, like December's game, be decided by just a single goal.
Pirates will be desperate for this one, to salvage some pride from a poor season.
But the force, at the moment, just seems to be with Chiefs, and don't bet against them nicking the derby again.