Former Socceroo Skoko hasn't played since Round 2 after tearing a hamstring while Terra missed his second match of the season last week with a groin strain and Worm was sidelined by a hamstring strain.

But all three are fit again and have been named for the AAMI Park duel with Wellington, the only headache for van 't Schip now is just how much to use each of the three because he doesn't expect them to last the whole game.

"Well they're all available, it's only now looking if it's also good to have them all on the pitch," he said before training on Friday afternoon.

"And if they start how long they are going to play?"

"It looks like they're all three not going to play a full game so we have to be very smart in seeing how we can use them for the coming game on Sunday."

"You know already, for example, if you would start with those three that they probably all three have to be substituted so it's all depending on how the game develops of course."

"So we have to be smart and have a good look ... how these players especially are reacting."

"So it's up to how they come out of the coming two days and then we as a coaching staff have to decide what we're going to do with them."

Having only missed one game Worm is the most likely of the three to start the game, not least because he also completed the entire pre-season whereas Skoko and Terra only arrived midway through July.

There may have been talk about the Victory having to play three games in seven days and the Phoenix three in nine after they staged the first mid-week game of the campaign this week but van 't Schip isn't convinced it's an issue.

"Those are things that are easy to say before a game," he said when asked if he believes his team has an advantage because the Phoenix are backing up just four days later.

"You can also say that they're in a rhythm of playing."

"I remember that when I was playing I loved to play national league and then European league and then national league, so you played a lot and you as a team you started gelling very quick and knowing from each other what to do."

"And they're in a good flow now so I think for them it doesn't matter."

"In a certain period of the season I think it's very good (playing three games in a week) because having a good pre-season at the beginning of the season, getting some games and then starting playing two times a week I never had problems with that."

"The only thing I think what is a big different is the distance in Australia is bigger of course than in Holland for example and in Europe as well."

Van 't Schip was also impressed by what he saw of the fifth-placed Phoenix when he sat in the stands at AAMI Park earlier this week in their 0-0 draw with the Victory.

"I think they're a very well-organised team," he said.

"They have two outstanding wingers with (Paul) Ifill and (Leo) Bertos, they have a very hard-working and also technical forward in (Chris) Greenacre ... and in the back they have a solid defence with (Andrew) Durante and (Jade) North, there's a lot of experience."