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Fresh from two successive victories on the road and having regained top spot on the Hyundai A-League ladder, Victory are set to have all their stars back.

As his team trained in stifling conditions, coach Ernie Merrick revealed he expects to finally have his four best attacking weapons in Archie Thompson, Ney Fabiano, Carlos Hernandez and Daniel Allsopp all on the park for the club's next match against Central Coast Mariners at Telstra Dome on Friday week.

It is a huge boost for a Melbourne side which regained top spot on the ladder after beating Queensland 1-0 in Brisbane last week - a win which followed on from a fantastic 3-2 win in Adelaide in a game in which only Allsopp was the only attacking option available.

But with Thompson and Brazilian import Fabiano now both back from suspension and with Hernandez set to return from the quad injury that has kept him out for the past two matches, Merrick suddenly has an embarrassment of riches at his disposal.

"We will have a pretty strong squad (for the Central Coast game)," Merrick warned today.

"I am relieved to get that sort of squad back together again because we went six weeks without being able to combine our top strikers.

"But now we have got Fabiano and Archie Thompson back with Carlos and Dan Allsopp and I think they will all be available for the next game."

Merrick said Hernandez' recovery was progressing well and he was certainly running well at training in difficult conditions on Wednesday.

"Carlos is now up to sprinting at 70 percent and he did 30 or 40 sprints today," Merrick said of the Costa Rican international.

"So Carlos will be close to being back for the Mariners game and he is looking good."

However Merrick said young wing-back Evan Berger will miss another match due to his injured hamstring although fellow defender Matthew Kemp should be available despite having battled a severe illness since the Queensland game.

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