While his club situation has left him frustrated, Borrello has been happy with his own form after arriving in Germany with modest expectations.

“It’s a good personal achievement for me to break into the first team, score a couple of goals and get a few assists,” he said.

“It’s good to play consistently which is what we were hoping for. When I first moved, I was saying to myself ‘don’t expect to play straight away, your time will come. If you get your chance, take it. adapt to the culture’.

“We set goals and we’re starting to reach them. I’m over the moon with how my season has gone personally.

“From a team perspective, it’s a hard situation to be in, especially having not been in a relegation battle before. It’s completely different to what I know in the A-League.”

He added that he’d learned a lot from his maiden season in Europe.

“I’m a right winger but I’ve been played on the left a couple of times and I’ve enjoyed it a lot there,” he said.

“I’ve played as a number 10, I’ve played as a right back, in the midfield, I’ve played a lot of the positions over the course of the season but always on the wing is where I tend to start off.

“I think it’s great for my development, game awareness and game intelligence, it’s helping me out a lot.”

Kaiserslautern’s fate could be decided when they are next away to fifth-placed Arminia Bielfeld on Saturday morning (2.30am AEST) in 2.Bundesliga.