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Kewell will play his first match in Melbourne for eight years, with his last appearance being the World Cup qualifier against Uruguay at the MCG in 2001

And he said the Socceroos determined to put their qualifying campaign back on track and are determined to put on a better show in the 2011 finals in Qatar than they did during the failed 2007 Asian Cup campaign in Thailand and Vietnam.

With qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa now behind them, Australia have switched focus firmly back to our own region following Saturday night's 0-0 draw against the highly-rated Dutch team in the friendly in Sydney.

After being forced to use an A-League-based team in the first two Asian Cup qualifiers - resulting in a 0-0 draw with Indonesia away in January and a shock 1-0 home loss against Kuwait in Canberra in March - the Socceroos are on the bottom of their four-team group with just one point from two matches.

In contrast, Wednesday night's opponents Oman are on top with four points, and only the top two in the group will qualify.

Kewell said there was no room for error for the Socceroos on Wednesday night as the country's international stars now attempt to correct the damage caused by the A-League team to the Asian Cup qualifying campaign so far.

"It's important we win and if we win we are back in the hunt (to qualify)," Kewell said on Monday. "Our next two games are against Oman so if we beat them twice we are in front of them by three points."

While the Asian Cup has yet to capture the imagination of the Australian sporting public, Kewell said the tournament meant a great deal to the players who were determined to make amends for their first campaign in 2007 when the team lost in the quarter-finals to Japan after having been held to a draw by Oman in their opening group game.

"It (not qualifying) is not an option," Kewell said. "And we have taken that advice on early on in camp this time around and even though we had that game on Saturday, we knew the important one was Wednesday and it's a must win.

"The Asian Cup is important. It's a competition that we are favourites in, not like the World Cup where we aren't favourites, because we are right up there with the best teams in Asia so that is where the pressure (to perform) comes into it.

"And we didn't perform well in the last Asian Cup so we have got to set the record straight this time."

Kewell said the players would have no trouble switching their focus from the World Cup to the Asian Cup and promised a more attacking approach than the one taken during the dour 0-0 draw against Holland when the Aussies rarely looked like scoring against the world's third ranked team.

He added: "I'm sure the performance you will see from us on Wednesday night will be very powerful and very strong and we have got to go out there full steam ahead (to score goals)."

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