Grant Brebner considers all his defensive options

As

Grant Brebner

is trying to send out a team with a powerful forward line,

are going to miss the defenders

Nick Ansell

,

Adama Traore

, and

Strom Roux

due to injuries they sustained in the loss on Sunday.

“

We have got a reasonably big squad. It’s not ideal to miss a few players but we’ve got the cover to do it,

” Brebner said.

Nick Ansell climbed off the bench in the 59th minute in the battle against Newcastle only to be sent off with a hamstring injury.

“

We can bring Dylan Ryan back in. He started the season at centre-back so he will come in for Ansell,

” said the head coach.

Roux, on the other hand, sustained an injury when they faced the Jets and is going to be out of action along with Traore.

“

We will look to bring one of the young lads in from the youth team to play a full-back role and one of our more experienced players will drop into the other role,

” Brebner said.

The Victory boss is going to have all his attacking line-up at his disposal for the first time this season.

“

Tomorrow night we get the opportunity to field a team that I’d like to field in that area and it has been a long time coming,

” said the Scotsman.

“

Marco Rojas has ticked off what he needed to tick off and comes back in.

“Callum McManaman managed to get 60 minutes into his legs on the weekend,

” he continued.

“

Robbie is getting fitter every game and Rudy has been coming back, so we’ve got all four of our bigger name players available and I want to see if they can come out and produce.”

Brebner believes that winning the clash against the Wellington Phoenix is of great importance.

“

We need to win games sooner rather than later,

” he said.

“

We can’t look too far ahead. We need to make sure we get three points tomorrow night and build from there,

” said Brebner.

Melbourne will then have three home games, with the first one being Western United.

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