After 10 rounds of the season, the Sky Blues sit clear on top of the A-League table, but just seven points separate them from the seventh-placed Reds.

Sydney opened up their lead at the top after three goals in five minutes dismantled the then second-placed Melbourne Victory on their home turf.

Sarkies is fully aware of what the Sky Blues are capable of, but he is confident his side can get the right result, despite struggling with just two wins from six attempts at home.

"They scored three goals in five minutes last week so good on them, hopefully they just don't do it against us. Defensively we're very sound and hopefully we can score a goal ... and try to win the game," Sarkies said.

"I think it's not so much pressure, I think it's more disappointment that we aren't getting the wins that last year we were getting. We've got to win a few more games at home which we hope to start off this week against Sydney.

"We're just going to stick to our game plan, work as hard as we can on that and see what comes from it."

Scoring goals has been one area of concern for the Reds in recent times with just five strikes in the past six weeks hitting the back of the net, but Sarkies hopes to turn that around this week.

"We've had a lot of opportunities, a lot of crosses into the box but I think we've just got to get the foot on the end of the ball," he said. "We're working on it at training and hopefully against Sydney this week we can bag a few.

"Coming into the next few days we'll focus more on it (Sydney's formation and set up), focus on the key points of their game and stick to our game plan and see how we go."