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Victory emerged from a mid-season slump racking up 15 points from the final seven matches to claim the Hyundai A-League Premiers Plate and Merrick is expecting more of the same in the upcoming Finals Series.

Merrick said: "We had a three-game losing streak and then we played against Sydney and we were down two goals after three minutes and came back to win 3-2, and our next six games we've won five of them.

So our build up to the finals is very good, we've got great momentum, we're driven, the boys are confident and seem to get better and better."

Merrick, who labelled the current Victory crop the best line-up the club has ever fielded, made no secret of his intentions against Aurelio Vidmar's men, promising all-out attack in Adelaide.

He said: "We feel as though we've got the team that has to go out and attack in both legs. We don't want to try and defend away from home and get a draw.

"We had the team that did that two years ago – we went out and did that – got the draw and then got the home win to put us into the grand final.

"Now I've got a different team, I've got a much improved attacking team – not only have Archie (Thompson) and Danny (Allsopp) got better, I've got (Ney) Fabiano up there and I've got attacking midfielders like Carlos Hernandez, Nick Ward, Tom Pondeljak, so we can really go out and attack teams because our defence has been rock solid."

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