Melbourne City Head Coach, Aurelio Vidmar, has praised his team’s work ethic amidst a difficult summer schedule.
City have opened the New Year with back-to-back wins and will be eager to make it three on the trot when they host Brisbane Roar at AAMI Park on Saturday.
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Read Aurelio’s pre-match thoughts below…
THEY ALL WANT TO PLAY
“Everyone’s pulled up well, we’ve had a couple of light sessions and another one this morning and at this stage everyone looks fine coming to the end of a pretty tough period with four games in a couple of weeks which is really good. Really good spirits, good focus, so looking forward to it tomorrow.
“We just have to be mindful of a couple of guys that have had a lot of minutes that maybe [need] a little bit of rest or who reducing minutes might be beneficial for them in the long term. But they all want to play. As soon as you say how are you feeling, they say I’m feeling fantastic, I’m feeling great, and I’m ready to go.
“That’s really positive, that the mindset is like that, that they want to play. And then at the end as a Head Coach, you have to make decisions and live with those decisions. But yeah, as I said, it’s a tricky game, and looking forward to it.”
ANOTHER IMPORTANT THREE POINTS ON THE LINE
“We can only prepare the [boys] mentally as best as we possibly can. We’ve spoken about the importance of it, it’s certainly a tricky game. And football is funny, sport is funny. When things are going well, if you get too comfortable, you get smashed in the face. We’ve got to be mindful of that.
“I think our work ethic at this point has been fantastic. If we roll up with the right attitude, with a good work ethic, we should be fine. But you just don’t get something for nothing. You have to do the work.
“It’s probably a [game] where everyone thinks, oh no, you should just win. But it just doesn’t work like that. We have to be focused. We have to pay a lot of attention to the small details.”
FIXTURE DETAILS
A-League Men: Round 13
Melbourne City FC v Brisbane Roar
Saturday 11 January, 5:00pm KO
AAMI Park
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