He told Radio Times magazine: "I suppose I started freeing myself up from any convention. I'm not saying no to things that I might have been a little bit wary about before.

It comes on the back of a 3-1 loss to the Newcastle Jet that leaves them second to last. Italiano says too much reliance is on forward Ifeanyi Eze to score.

Second-place Auckland are back on the road for a game against the seventh-placed Western Sydney Wanderers on Friday.

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