BRISBANE are well aware they may have one hand on the Premiers Plate by the final whistle at Allianz Stadium on Friday night, but Sydney FC shouldn’t expect to meet a team in cruise control despite their commanding league at the top of the table.

Victory for the Roar, coupled with Western Sydney losing tomorrow night against Adelaide, would formalise Brisbane’s lead at the top into an impregnable gap and see them crowned in succession to the Wanderers.

But Roar captain Matt McKay dismissed suggestions that Brisbane might freewheel against a side they have beaten twice already this season, with an aggregate scoreline of 9-2 that included a Boxing Day massacre at Allianz Stadium.

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“There’s no danger of us cruising, none at all – we’ve worked very hard to get into this position and we know how important it is to maintain that form going into the finals,” he said. “I don’t actually think we’ll win the league this weekend, but if and when it does happen we’ll have earnt it.

“We have a great record against Sydney, it’s true, and that Boxing Day game was probably our best game of the season. But we’ll need to replicate that and play just as well because Sydney are in a ­difficult spot and fighting to maintain different ambitions to ours.

“Every game now we’re preparing for the finals as well as fighting for points.

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“We’ll finish in the top two but you saw in the W-League, where three played four in the grand final, that the way the finals are structured can make it a lottery.”

Brisbane had given the chasing pack – and Western Sydney in particular – a brief glimmer of hope last month with a run of one point from three games, but consecutive defeats of Perth and Adelaide have confirmed their inevitable march towards a second Premiers Plate in four years.

“I think we stopped trying to overdo it a bit, and on a variety of individual fronts stopped trying to do too much too quickly,” McKay said.

News_Rich_Media: Brisbane Roar coach Mike Mulvey addresses the press following his side’s 2-1 win over Adelaide United.

“But those two losses in a row a few weeks back were the first consecutive defeats we’d had all season – and that statistic really shows how consistent we’ve been.

“A lot of the credit for that goes to (coach) Mike (Mulvey) — first because he’s a great motivator, and has us mentally well prepared for each game.

“But tactically as well, we’ve shaped up nicely. Most games he’s got it right in summing up our opponents, and how we need to play against them.

“All of the players, especially the senior ones, have a lot of theories about how the games should be played and Mike’s confident enough to take those on board.

“There’s no doubt he’s the boss, but he’s able to listen and absorb what people are putting forward. The success of that you can see in our results.”