“We try to break and create opportunities and also be careful about transition because they keep a lot of the time, three players in front.

“Yes, we have to be well organised but it’s usually the same, so all A-League games are specific and it’s always a tough game.”

As for what Mombaerts considers good possession?

“Dominating games is not the main goal,” he explained. “Yes, you can dominate sometimes and not win.

"Sometimes, some teams don’t have possession because… we need to have possession to win but some teams – we have a good example – at eye level that France for example, they don’t need to have possession to win.

“Possession, it’s a good thing if when you’re in possession you can create opportunities and you can score. But if you create opportunities and not score it’s not the same – it’s a big problem.”

Despite losing their place at the top of the heap to defending champions Sydney FC while on their bye, City are riding high under their new gaffer.

With 16 points after seven rounds, the club is enjoying one of their best-ever starts - as City or Heart - and cannot fall below second-place on the table regardless of the result against Glory. 

Glory’s season, though, sits in stark contrast to their Premiership-winning campaign from a season ago. 

With just a solitary win to their names, the pressure is on Popovic and his squad to begin to pile up some points before their season begins to truly slip away. 

City will welcome back Connor Metcalfe and Richard Windbichler – the latter restricted to starting on the bench – for the clash but will have to wait another week for Florin Berenguer after Mombaerts indicated he remained unavailable despite starting for City’s Y-League.