Verbeek said he expected a full house of 90,000 at the Bung Karno stadium for the clash against the Indonesians.

And he predicted the lead-in to the game would be as difficult as the fly-in World Cup qualifiers experienced by our Europe-based Socceroos.

"It will not be easy because we have A-League games on the weekend so we will arrive with a couple of days before the game," he said.

Assistant coach Graham Arnold arrived home today and will deliver a report to Verbeek about our opponents tomorrow.

Verbeek also slammed the state of training facilities handed to his South Korean team for last year's Asian Cup.

"They were the worst I've ever seen," he said of the Jakarta facilities. "Then again, we went to Uzbekistan in September and they were much better than last time I was there.

"But I know with a full house the stadium in Jakarta is fantastic."

Verbeek also hinted that he may look at some European-based Socceroos for the Indonesia clash depending on availability.

However, he said he has a 34-man A-League squad in mind for the clash.

The Dutchman indicated the bulk of the his squad for that match will contain A-League players, given the fixture clashes with a full midweek round of matches in the English Premier League as well as many other club fixtures elsewhere in Europe.

Australia is in a four-nation group alongside Asian lightweights Oman, Kuwait and Indonesia (ranked 95, 128 and 132 respectively on the FIFA rankings compared to Australia's 37).

With the top two to progress automatically after the six home and away matches, the Socceroos are expected to easily qualify - even if they do not have their best team available for most matches.

Verbeek, who has been critical of the standard of the A-League throughout his 12 months in charge of the Socceroos, says the upcoming period is a big opportunity for some of the locally-based players to show they are up to international standard.

The trip to Indonesia on January 28 comes just a fortnight before the eagerly-awaited World Cup showdown against arch-rivals Japan in Japan which pits together arguably the two best teams in the Asian confederation.

While the bulk of Australia's big guns should be available for that huge clash, Verbeek said the Indonesian game was a chance for other players to force their way into the squad for the more important Japan game a fortnight later.

"It's up to them (the A-League) players to show me what they can do, it's showtime," Verbeek said on Thursday.

"We will find out if players are capable of stepping up for coming games because the Asian Cup will be mostly (for) A-League players and it's a chance for guys to show themselves in national football."

Verbeek says he has already identified 34 players he believes are capable of playing against Indonesia but says performances in coming weeks - as the A-League reaches its climax - will be crucial to local players' hopes of stepping up to international level.

"We still have five weeks to go (until the Indonesia game) and if one or two players step up it will be easy to put them on that list also," he said.

"I have seen enough of the overseas players, the time now is to focus on the players in the A-League and that is my job at the moment."

But the Japan game is also not far from Verbeek's thoughts as he dismissed any suggestions the Japanese - who like the Socceroos are expected to be one of the two teams that qualify automatically from Group One of the final stage of Asian qualifying - will go in as favourites despite the game being played in Japan.

Verbeek says he hopes Japanese club Gamba Osaka's recent demolition of Australia's Adelaide United in the Asian Champions' League final will make the Japanese over-confident but doubts that will be the case.

"I hope they think they will have an easy game but they will not - they will never underestimate us, they know it will be a tough game and we know it will be a tough game as well," he said.

Verbeek believes the Socceroos need just six points from their last five qualifying games to reach the 2010 World Cup and wants to secure those points 'the sooner the better'.

"So we will go for a win against Japan but we will find out after the game if a draw is good enough," he said.

And while Verbeek might have had a dream 12 months in charge of the Socceroos - with his winning record of 62 percent from 13 games in charge so far (eight wins, three draws, two losses) - actually better than they achieved by his legendary predecessor and countryman Guus Hiddink, the Dutchman is refusing to give himself a pat on the back.

"I never look back, I look forward and forward is the next game," he said.

"We need to qualify for the Asian Cup as well as the World Cup and my score (out of 10) will be 10 if we qualify for the World Cup."

"But we haven't qualified for the World Cup yet and while I am pleased with what has happened over the past 12 months, the only reason I am here is to qualify for the World Cup and I can't be happy until we do that."