Fabrice Akwa is getting ready to score some goals at this year's World Cup, and Wednesday's match against Iran may be his last chance.

The Black Antelopes, who lost to Portugal 1-0 before a 0-0 draw with Mexico, need a win in Leipzig to have any chance of advancing to the second round.

"Because goals haven't been forthcoming, the coach has been working a lot on this with us," Akwa said Tuesday. "Our objective is to have a victory. We know that to do this we need to score goals and we are going to play the game with this objective too, to score goals."

Akwa is the man who scored against Rwanda in African qualifying to give Angola its first appearance at the World Cup.

But despite needing a win, Angola feels no pressure for the match against Iran, according to assistant coach Alvaro de Almeida Mabi.

"The two (previous) results can be seen as positive. This increases the objective of the players and technical team to continue improving in the tournament," Mabi said. "But thankfully, we are protected from all external pressures."

Akwa agreed.

"People (in Angola) are happy with what we are managing here but I don't feel any pressure. People want us to win because we have a real chance of qualifying, but there's no pressure," the captain said.

Besides the technical training, Mabi said a large part of the preparation work for Wednesday's game had been psychological.

"We created our own protective cell, this is the way we want to do things. We think we are able to do a better show against Iran and we will look inside ourselves to obtain this better result," Mabi said.

Angola came to the tournament as the underdog in its group but the team's performance has improved during the first two matches.

While confidence among the players has improved, they know Iran won't give up despite already being eliminated.

"We have watched Iran's game against Portugal and we think Iran played really well," goalkeeper Joao Ricardo said. "Portugal had difficulty winning that game and it was only in the last part of the game that they were able to.

"We're prepared for a difficult test."