We had some great one touch football and we opened them up a few times and just that final pass let us down. Hopefully next week some of those stick.

When you take in to account travel time and time difference, there's few harder away trips in world football. We're determined to get a result though, because we know how important it is to get off to a good start in this league.

Ante has always shown that he is a big-game player. He can go through a match doing nothing and all of a sudden produce a world-class goal that wins the game.

We don't want to let them down and I'm confident we're more than capable of grinding out a result against Adelaide, even if it isn't very pretty.

I do believe we are good enough to cope with him.

Jamie's been trialing with us for a little while now and he's looking sharper each time he takes to the training pitch.