And Kosmina said Glory were due to be humiliated by a similar scoreline if they continue to play the way they played in their 4-1 victory.

"Do you think we didn't play well?" a defiant Kosmina said after the game. "We battered them mainly. I'd hate to see the stats. The first half we could have had three or four even five.

Asked if Glory were a top four side, Kosmina replied: "Not if they play like that.

"Sooner or later, someone will give them a hiding."

And Kosmina said the Middleby own goal to make it 4-1 was due to the late afternoon light. "There was a band of light about four feet wide. If it [the band of light] had been longer or shorter, he'd probably got there.

"We scored more goals than Perth today," Kosmina added of the two own goals conceded by Robbie Middleby and Anthony Golec.

Kosmina added that Aloisi's confidence may be down: "You can see he's hurting."

Aloisi missed two sitters in the first half and cut a dejected figure when hauled off by Kosmina in the second half.

When told that John Kosmina had said Sydney battered Perth, Glory coach David Mitchell laughed it off and derided Kosmina's views as disappointing.

"I can tell by the [journalists] laughter in the room, you're all amused by that comment," he said.

"They thumped us last time we were here and we went a man short and it probably wasn't a penalty. And they probably thought they'd do the same today."

Mitchell added the comments were "disappointing... but long may it continue."

Glory coach put his side's upturn in fortunes in the stability gained from his contract extension. He also lauded his star midfielder Adriano Pellegrino as the "signing of the season".

Mitchell said he'd plead Pellegrino's case for inclusion in the home-based Socceroo squad due to be announced by Pim Verbeek shortly.