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"The players know what their goals are for the rest of the season," said Sydney FC coach Graham Arnold this week, almost as an afterthought.
And it's not the obvious one of winning the league.
Arnold has instead urged his players to focus on records along the way — both goal-scoring and overall points — believing such accomplishments will lead to.
Every year at the Mariners, Arnold would set his players targets — individually and as a team — and the formula has continued at Sydney.
Marc Janko's scoring streak has helped Sydney edge closer to several team records. Source: News Corp Australia
Marc Janko has taken the plaudits for his goalscoring streak, but Sydney are edging closer to several team records. As Arnold also said this week, if they are achieved, then the Sky Blues will be there or thereabouts in the title race too.
One goal against Melbourne City tonight would equal the record number of goals Sydney have scored in a season, the 41 last achieved with Del Piero Version I in 2012-13. As those who suggest Arnold is a defensive coach tend to be reminded by him, his Mariners sides also set scoring records.
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But victory tonight would also lift Sydney from 38 points to 41; not just topping the table, but putting them tantalisingly within reach of the 48 with which they won the Premier's Plate in 2009-10.
That's the most the Sky Blues have ever attained, though it's hardly the league's overall record. Brisbane racked up 65 in an 11-team competition in 2010-11, and the Wanderers accrued 57 in 2012-13.
Whether collecting 11 points from six games starting tonight is enough to win the league remains to be seen but it is almost a moot point.
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What gets emphasised to the players is that external factors and results in other games help to determine who comes first after 27 rounds. But achieving a team's best ever points tally is far more in its own hands, and is the target that should be aimed at.
To achieve it, Sydney will surely have to correct the defensive frailties that have made them at times as entertaining for the wrong reasons as right.
Against the Wanderers they let slip a 3-0 lead but stole the game late on; against Brisbane the score veered from 4-1 in their favour to 4-3, then 5-3, then 5-4. Fabulous for the neutral, it isn't the traditional defensive record of teams that win titles.
Alessandro Del Piero leaves a Wanderers defender in his wake. Source: News Corp Australia
And yet, Sydney also have another record in sight. Avoiding defeat against Melbourne City tonight would set a10-game record for going undefeated.
As their captain, Alex Brosque, noted yesterday, with only six games to go, Sydney should have some belief about their ability to stay the course.
"I definitely think this squad has what it takes to be champions," Brosque said "Getting the minor premiership would be quite big as well because it means you've been the best side over 27 rounds.
"There's only six games to go and if we continue the way that we are I'm confident that this squad can go all the way.
"It's very special memories winning that title on the last day of the season ... But I'd like to write some new history."
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