Wolves coach Jacob Timpano insists Sydney Olympic will face a completely different force this weekend to the one they beat convincingly in round two.
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Olympic flexed their muscle in the early season meeting as they chalked up a dominant 3-0 victory at Belmore Sports Ground.
In Timpano’s opinion, the Wolves were still finding their feet on that day and he expects things won’t be the same when they meet again at WIN Stadium on Sunday.
"That was early season for us and we are in a better space now then we were then," he said.
"We feel asleep on a couple of occasions that day and didn't have a lot of ball.
"You just can't afford to switch off like that against a team like Olympic so we can't let that happen again this time around."
The Wolves have lost just once at home this season and have already beaten two of the top-four clubs at home.
They’ll look to add third-placed Olympic to that list, but will have to do so without Peter Simonoski, Hayden Morton and Brett Wilson.
Attacking duo Josh MacDonald and Nico Bernal are also both in doubt. If they fail to pass fitness tests, it will leave Yuzo Tashiro and Patrick Antelmi to lead the line.
"Yuzo is in good form and Patrick has scored two in two games so hopefully that can continue," Timpano said.
"Since [Nick Montgomery] has come in, we have had guys come in and stepped up well around those guys like [James] Markovic did last weekend.
"We have the depth there so it's another opportunity for guys to step up."
