The gap between first and second has widened by 11 points with 10 games remaining in the regular season.

Muscat was happy with his team’s structure and said they needed to eliminate minor errors which were soft.

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Asensio's Screamer Vs FC Barcelona
In one of Real Madrid's most outstanding performances at the Camp Nou, Los Blancos beat FC Barcelona 3-1 in the Spanish Supercup. Real were leading 2-1 after Cristiano Ronaldo's 80th minute goal, but just before the final whistle, we sealed the win with this beautiful Marco Asensio strike.
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“I’ll never give up trying to catch them (Sydney), what it does for it, time will tell. I don’t know,” Muscat said.

“We haven’t been opened up tonight, we haven’t been outpassed or outplayed. First one (goal is off a second phase of a corner, we’re not picking up when the ball gets returned into our box.

“The second goal was from a goalkeeper who launches a ball to a contest and we don’t deal with it. We let the ball bounce second to the first and second contest and we concede.”

“I was really happy with the football we played. Manufactured and scored a very good goal, disappointing at the moment, we made decisions defensively resulting in goals.”

Muscat said the performance against Sydney was evidence they could win the title with his counterpart Graham Arnold far from content with the balance of play.

The Victory boss is now looking to next week’s derby.

“On the space of a short period of time, I think the work they put in again tonight considering the schedule we’d been on,” he said.

“It’s difficult to swallow because the output the group have performed at to get no rewards for, it’s difficult. But there’s no time for worrying about the past now, it’s worrying about we can affect.”