The OFC Champions League winners are looking to advance to the quarter-finals, where Algerians ES Setif await.
Morocco host the tournament and league champions Moghreb Tetouan will be hoping to please the home fans at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium on Wednesday.
"I don't know much about Moghreb Tetouan - they won the Moroccan league, of course, which is not easy," he told FIFA.com.
"They'll be very competitive, we saw that with Raja Casablanca."
Of eight games at the Club World Cup, Auckland City have won just twice – and the last of those victories came in 2009.
"When we equalised the stadium was silent. We had our minds set on getting to extra time and taking our chances there," he said.
"We wanted to create more pressure and test their nerves and perhaps see them make another mistake.
"To play at a FIFA Club World Cup is a dream and it makes you lift your game to another level. We're very excited."
Aziz El Amri's men will be confident of turning around their form in front of their home fans against Auckland City.
