"I think there's loads of room for improvement," Aloisi said.

"It's the first time I've played with Gerry (Sibon) ... and then you've got Alex (Terra) who is still not 100 percent match fit and you can see what he can do when he goes forward."

"And Rutger Worm, it's his first game back after injury, and I thought he caused a lot of trouble, (Josip) Skoko is still not match fit.

"I think we can improve a lot more.

"You can't always play great football but you try to play good football and as long as the movement is good and the players I thought in the second half, the movement was brilliant, it's hard to defend that."

And while coach John van 't Schip was quick to 'compliment' his players on their game, he remained cautious about the performance afterwards, saying that until his fledgling team can display the cohesion that it did in that 20 minutes for longer periods he won't be satisfied.

"You always have periods in a game and I think that was a very good period of us," van 't Schip said of his team's strong run in the second half.

"We were playing some good football and some nice things for the people to see as well but at the end you have to make the goals and we had a few good chances.

"We kept on working at the things that we thought we had to bring in the team and even after today there's still a lot of work to be done because we want to get this constant better.

"After a performance that is good, it's more a reason to believe in it and to work even harder to get to the next level and the next level will be to have more games that you play this kind of football."

Making the performance the more impressive was the reshuffle that the loss of Brendan Hamill with a knee injury inside the first 20 minutes forced, with Matt Thompson dropping back into defence and Rutger Worm coming on and slotting in to midfield.