Sanfrecce Hiroshima admit to being worn out going into the Club World Cup, but the newly crowned J. League champions will bank on their confidence and experience to get them past Auckland City on Thursday.

Hiroshima played both legs of the J. League Championship Final last week to mark the end of a long campaign and will be anything but 100 percent fit, manager Hajime Moriyasu said on the eve of the quarterfinal playoff against Auckland at Nissan Stadium.

Sanfrecce and Auckland squared off the last time Hiroshima was in the tournament in 2012, Toshihiro Aoyama scoring the lone goal in a 1-0 victory for Moriyasu's men who were coming off the first of three J. League titles they would go on to win over the next four years.