Victory celebrated a 2-0 win over Bentleigh Greens away in the FFA Cup quarter-final and now look forward to the beginning of the A-League next week.

The FFA Cup semi-finals will either be played on the 18/19 or 25/26 October and the decisions of venues and dates would be decided in the coming days.

The first Melbourne Derby will be played in Week 2 of the A-League on October 15 and Muscat hoped the game would happen at AAMI Park, hinting common sense should prevail with dates and times.

“At this point I’m probably not as excited as everyone else, just getting over tonight. There’s a couple of games at least before that game,” Muscat said.

“Our attention turns now to Brisbane Roar and we’ll worry about that when it comes around.

“Naturally when they decide to play that game, it’ll have a huge factor on audience and attendance on the night, because it’ll be the first semi-final immediately after the second (A-League) game.

“It’ll be nice to have some space between a derby for everyone to build it up for what it should be, a massive night in Victoria.”

Muscat highlighted the dominance they had against Bentleigh in the second half, netting two unanswered goals after a scoreless first half with Lawrence Thomas having little work to do for the majority of the game.

The Victory boss conceded his happiness for the club’s progression to the final four and praised his attack and defence, but believed there was worked still to do.

“We did defend reasonably well and there were a couple of times in the first half when in transition, you give the ball away poorly when you’re going forward and as soon as you give the ball away you’re most vulnerable because you’re disorganised in terms of a defensive shape,” he said.

“They showed they threatened a bit. If that occurs on October 7, that might be a little bit different, so one or two things we need to brush up on.”