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Graham Arnold vows Sydney FC will not celebrate Premier's Plate

Coach Graham Arnold has vowed there'll be no celebrating if Sydney FC make history as the fastest A-League team to win the Premiers' Plate this weekend, determined not to lose momentum in the all-important finals run.

The Sky Blues are 11 points clear at the top and can lift their first trophy in seven seasons if they defeat the Central Coast Mariners on Friday night and Melbourne Victory fail to beat Perth Glory on Saturday.

But Arnold was determined not to lose momentum for the all-important finals run, demanding his record-breaking squad lift yet another gear instead of toasting their achievements.

"Not a chance," he said.

"That's what the other teams want, they want us to celebrate and take our foot off the pedal.

"That's not going to happen.

"It's about driving this team to be better and better, and we know we've still got a lot left in us.

"Last week [against Victory] it was a good performance, but the improvement side of it is we had 18 shots to five and we should have converted more.

"Until we get that ruthless streak of finishing off our chances we're letting the opposition stay in the game."

Arnold confirmed he'd make no changes to his Big Blue starting XI, saying he wanted his strongest line-up to face the ninth-placed Mariners, the only team to score more than one goal against Sydney this season in January's tight 3-2 result.

And to keep motivation high the 53-year-old has set personal goals for his attacking quartet.

"10 goals or above, so double figures for Brosque, Ninkovic, Holosko and Bobo," he said.

"They've got another five games and three of them need to get to that.

"So they've got individual goals as well as team goals -- the team goal is about creating history."

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