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Le Roy was speaking ahead of his team's clash against a full-strength Australian side in Melbourne, where Oman will be looking to hold onto their lead in the qualification group.

The French journeyman has said that he feels the qualification does not operate on a level playing field because four of the six games are played outside FIFA match days.

While that may not affect the availability of players from Oman, Kuwait or Indonesia, it means Australia have their full European contingent available for just two matches, both of which are against Oman.

"I can not understand why these days are not official FIFA dates. You have to explain to me how it's possible to play against a team and not one of the players was in the game against Indonesia, or Kuwait," Le Roy said.

"I can not understand how it is possible. We are very, very unlucky because, the only two games where it is a FIFA date, we play Australia."

Australia, which fielded a side drawn from A-League stocks for the 1-0 loss to Kuwait in Canberra in March, have one player from that squad - veteran defender Craig Moore - in the team for Wednesday's match.

But Le Roy's point remains valid when, in the wash-up, Kuwait have three points from playing a vastly under-strength Australian team.

"It's a huge problem for us - the team of Australia against Kuwait, if they had the full team, it would be a different result," he said.

"Today we have four points, I think that we need 10 points to qualify, maybe 11, but I think 10 will be enough."

"We have to win two games in our next four games and it won't be easy, especially with those two games against Australia.

"You'll have to ask the AFC how it is possible to build a competition so important, like Asian Cup of Nations, with teams who can not present a full team.

"For me, the AFC, they may be unhappy, but that's not my problem. They don't respect themselves doing that."

Le Roy called on AFC chief Mohammed Bin Hammam not to wait for FIFA to act on the issue but to consider a similar model to Africa's, where preliminary World Cup and continental qualifiers are played at the same time.

He added: "I'm not the first fan of FIFA. I'm not the chairman of the FIFA fan club.

"We have no power, the coaches or the players. I think they have this problem no more in Africa, because the qualification for the African Cup of Nations is also the same as the World Cup qualification.

"Maybe Mr Bin Hammam has to look at the calendar a bit more - they have found a good solution in Africa, maybe they can do that for Asia."

Le Roy admitted that if Oman were to miss out on a place in the 2011 Asian Cup, then they could not only blame the unfair scheduling against the Socceroos, but also their own scheduling blunder for hosting their first Asian Cup qualifier against Indonesia in January - a match they drew - just two days after the team won the Gulf Cup.

"I was not there when the timetable was done, but to put a game two days after the final of the Gulf Cup, it was completely crazy, in two senses," he said.

"One, it's difficult to stop the players celebrating after waiting for 40 years to win the Gulf Cup. Two, if we had have lost, on a psychological level, it will be terrible and awful. To play on January 19 was a very bad choice."

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