"The team did a very good job, everyone was running, fighting and this was great to see when everyone involved in the game was pushing for the same thing.

“I feel a little bit of disappointment about the Mariners game because we couldn’t find a way to win and I think we could’ve got three points, so we lost two points there.

“I try to do my job and help my team. At the moment I’m not scoring, but I’m doing well for the team, so this is the most important thing and it’s important to win the league.

“Football is like this, if you don’t score for two goals and people might question ‘what’s happened?’ or ‘he’s not the same player’, but I don’t care about that.

“I try to do my job and in football everything can change in a second. I hope I can score against Sydney and people can say, ‘Oh yeah, he’s back’.

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“We can’t think too much about Sydney, we have to think about that for the first game at home and we need to create this idea that it’s difficult to play against Melbourne City this year away.

"We need to make playing at home special. I always love playing there, it’s my home and I always feel something special at AAMI Park, so I can’t wait to play.”

Fornaroli is entering his final season of his four year contract and he said he has matured in his time in Melbourne.

He captained City in the 2016/17 season and is the all-time leading goal scorer for the club.

“I always say I’m very happy here, but with football, you never know what’ll happen in the future,” El Tuna said.

“My family and I are grateful to the club to open the door to this country and help my family and myself every day.

“I can only say thank you to the club and all the people involved here. Maybe people only see the players and staff, but there are so many people that work for the club and help.”