Wagga City Wanderers coach Michael Babic wants his team to take the grand final on against Yoogali

Just one win stands in the way of the Wanderers and history as the club prepares to take on Yoogali in the grand final of the NPL Two competition at Deakin Stadium on Sunday.

It has already been a historic campaign for the Wanderers, winning their first ever senior final last week to qualify through to the decider.

It has all taken place under the watchful eye of first-year Wanderers coach, Babic, a renowned tactician who had led the club to new heights this season.

Babic is one away from delivering a maiden senior premiership for the Wanderers and his message this week is for his team to take the game on against the all-conquering Yoogali side.

"Yeah, absolutely. We don't want to park the bus, we want to go out and score goals, we want to play football, we don't want to be caught up in just trying to stop them so we want to be brave," Babic said.

"We want to take the game to them as much as we can, put them on the back foot and see how they cope with a little bit of pressure and that won't be easy because they're such a good side but you've got to have that mindset.

"So the mindset is we're not here just to make up the numbers, we want to win this and the way we're going to win it is by being brave. We won't be able to absorb pressure for 90 minutes so the best way to defend is to get on the attack."

The Wanderers have only played Yoogali once this season, in Griffith, and they went down 3-1 on that occasion.

Babic revealed it was the Yoogali loss that sparked a significant change at the Wanderers.

"I think Matt (Menser) and I, after we played Yoogali a month ago, we started strategising then," he said.

"We know what we think we need to do when we play them. We expected that if we're going to get to the final that we would play them somewhere along the line, either in the final or in the semi-final so we've actually been preparing for the last month.

"We've changed our system and I think we've got the system that gives us the best opportunity to beat them. We realise the way we went out against them last time wasn't going to work. So tactically I think we're ready, we're good to go."

Most importantly, the change in structure a month ago has made the Wanderers flexible in their approach to games.

"At the start of the year we started with a 3-5-2 formation and that's how we played right up until we played against Yoogali. The way we went there we realised that it's not the way to go against them so we've gone back to a 4-3-3," Babic said.

"The strength of what we do is that the principles that we use in whatever system that we play, what we can do is that we can adjust as we go. A lot of people don't realise that in the semi-final, when the game was in the balance, went from 4-3-3 to a 3-5-2, because we knew we could. And that's how we went and got the goal in extra-time.

"We didn't sit back, we were brave and we chased the game. The key to it this week, we know they're very good and if we let them play, they'll just play through us and play around us, there's nothing we can do about that so we're going to take the game to them, we're going to be brave, we're going to have a real go at them."

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