Sydney FC captain Alex Brosque says his sensational goal scoring form is down to the style of football the Sky Blues are playing this season.
Brosque’s nine goal return is the most the 33-year-old has scored in a Sky Blue shirt and with ten league games remaining his end of season tally could smash his previous record.
Along with his goal output, Brosque has four assists and the strikers displays have many in the game calling for the veteran to be given a Socceroos recall.
And while Brosque admits he's in rare scoring form, the Sky Blues captain said Sydney’s dominance in possession has played a big part in his ability to score so many goals.
“I’m not playing any better than in other years but definitely from a goal scoring point of view it’s the most prolific I’ve been in my career,” he said. “We play such a high pressing game that we don’t give teams much time to build up and get their attacking play going. When we win the ball, we are almost in the opposition’s half already. We are getting the ball in the box so many more times than we probably have in previous years.
“It’s not just myself all the strikers are scoring goals because we are able to win the ball in good areas, with either counter attack or building up from within our half. A lot of my goals have been tap-ins not fantastic strikes or anything brilliant because of the pressure that we are building.
Brosque’s volley against Adelaide United was certainly not a tap in and the veteran striker said the build-up play prior to the finish was an example of what Sydney has been about this season.
“It’s the sort of football we want to play,” he said. “Before that goal there was something like 25 or 26 passes leading up to it. There were two parts to it. Bobo made a good run forward where if he doesn’t make that run then the space in for me doesn’t happen and then Rhyan Grant puts in a great spot. It was decent little finish but I actually thought I was going miss it altogether so I was happy that it caught my foot.”
Brosque also was keen to dispel the myth that Sydney can’t perform to their best without their captain on the field and used the recent win against the Mariners as evidence.
“I actually disagree,” he said. “Early in the season I didn’t start in the first three games and the team won all those games convincingly. We played Central Coast the other week and apart from the two set pieces we again scored three goals.
“Honestly there is not one single player that you take out of our team and we’d miss to the point where we still can’t win a game and that is myself included. If I’m not in the squad David Carney comes or Bernie Ibini comes or Mat Simon comes in and we don’t lose anything. The squad has still done its job and still won its games and that has been key to why we are doing so well this year.”
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