Ahead of meeting Perth Glory tomorrow, Melbourne City Head Coach Erick Mombaerts says he learned his lessons from their previous clash – and is ready to make amends.

“To beat this team, it’s better to be a good scenario. A scenario where you start well and try to score one.
“But also, we have experience of this first game and we know what we have to do to be stronger now.”
Working in Mombaerts’s favour is that his side has welcomed in reinforcements in the wake of their 3-0 defeat against Glory.
Javier Cabrera has departed the club and former Athletic Bilbao stalwart Markel Susaeta brought in his place, while Celtic winger Jack Hendry has been brought in as cover for the oft-injured Richard Windbichler.
“For sure they will be in our squad,” Mombaerts said of his new signings. “We will see [how much they can play] tomorrow, we practised a few options.
“But Jack started to train only on Tuesday. He is fit but yes we need to see about our game principles, if he is okay with them.
"For Markel, it’s a bit different. he is improving day by day physically. I’m not sure he can start but maybe he has more time to play than the last game.”
Glory are sweating on the fitness of two impact players of their own heading into Saturday night’s fixture, with Chris Ikonomidis (knee) and Ivan Franjic (calf) both under fitness clouds heading into the contest after missing last week’s win over Western Sydney Wanderers.
"[Ikonomidis] is feeling better," Glory boss Tony Popovic said yesterday.
"He trained a little with the group yesterday, and we expect him to do the session today. We'll make an assessment after consulting with him to see how he feels.
"We know he's a lot more positive, but we need him to be able to go at 100 per cent in the game. If he can, he'll travel. But if he can't, we'll wrap him up and hopefully, it will be next week.
"[Franjic is] similar to Chris. They did a part of the session yesterday, a very short probably 30 minutes together the two of them."
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