The team is currently competing in the AFC Under-22 Championships here and has a good chance of qualifying for the final phase, provided it wins the do-or-die encounter against Oman on Tuesday.
"Also when you play 5 games in 11 days you need to utilise your whole squad. We have depth in the bench at the moment and the players are quite comfortable to change in situations because in the training preparation we consistently worked on all players understanding the whole system. It's flexible," Papas said.
According to the Australian, Oman are a very capable side and his boys will have their task cut out.
"We will have to ensure we are able to find a structure which allow us to win the second ball consistently and again we need to keep focusing on our positional understanding whenever we have the ball," he said.
Coming into the tournament as underdogs, Papas is impressed with way his players have performed.
"In every game, we have started as the lowest ranked nation and wear the tag of 'underdogs' to those outside. Internally though, we have developed an amazing team spirit, inner self-belief and have consistently grown in confidence day by day whilst playing a very positive brand of football," he said. MORE
