With Western Sydney in the FFA Cup semi-final and the A-League season about to kick off the Wanderers are in contention for three trophies this season.

Wanderers fans are hoping the club can improve from their inconsistent 2016-17 season where they struggled to make the finals and only scored 35 goals.

With four goals in Western Sydney’s three FFA Cup games against Wellington Phoenix, Bentleigh Greens and Blacktown City, Riera looks like being the answer to their recent scoring problems.

At the very least the Barcelona youth player looks certain to outperform previous Wanderers foreign duo Dino Kressinger and Federico Piovaccari who netted only three goals in 34 games.

Speaking to FourFourTwo just before this week’s season opener, Riera said the club is aiming for silverware.

“Western Sydney wants to fight for the league title and to win the final,” he said

“We want to achieve that but we want to think about it game by game.

“It will be very hard to play A League teams who want to win the same way we want to win but we will be very, very competitive.”

Riera comes to the A-League after spending last season in Spain’s La Liga where he scored against Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao and Valencia and he said the decision to leave was about personal growth.

“When I had this opportunity, I called some friends that played here before or are playing now and I asked about football and about life,” he said.

“First it was about the lifestyle because for us it’s a big change. Then it was about the football.

“The Chairman showed me what they want to do in the future and I liked the challenge.

“The club is very young and they want to grow, this is the reason why I am here - for the project and its why I’ve come to the other side of the world.”

After a number of hit outs in the FFA Cup, Riera acknowledged the physical nature of the Australian game.

“It’s very strong football,” he said. “It’s quite different from Spanish football or European football.

“We have to be fit because here there’s high intensity during the games.

“But you can see the league is improving and changing every single season.”

With the Wanderers signing two more countrymen in Alvaro Cejudo (Real Betis) and Raul Llorente (Platania), Riera said he will have no problem settling into his new surroundings.

“It’s not a problem for me to stay in Australia alone,” he said. “But maybe for the football it’s good to have many Spanish players because we know what kind of football we want to play.

“Because we can combine and we speak the same football language. So, it will be good, not for us only but for the team and for the club and the league.”