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Melbourne Victory needed a week off and will be fully recharged for Saturday nights home A-League clash with the injury-ravaged Newcastle Jets, star attacker James Troisi says.Victory were scheduled to take on Wellington Phoenix on the weekend but the fixture was postponed after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand, causing some minor damage to Westpac Stadium.The match is yet to be rescheduled, with Victory fifth on the ladder with a game in hand.Troisi, who made his return from a fractured collarbone in the 3-0 win over Western Sydney the week before, said theyve made the most of the break.We needed it, he said on Tuesday.We trained hard during the week, which very rarely we get to do.All our GPS scores were through the roof.We had some very tough sessions, worked on a lot, but were well-refreshed now and looking forward to the game on the weekend.Kevin Muscats men will be warm favourites to account for the Jets, whose injury problems show no sign of abating.Former Victory winger Andrew Nabbout is the latest to have been struck down, and will reportedly miss the next four weeks due to an ankle injury.On Monday, striker Aleksandr Kokko had surgery on a fractured draw that will also put him out for up to a month.Thats on top of injures to defenders Nigel Boogaard (knee), Daniel Mullen (knee) and Lachlan Jackson (ankle), while goalkeeper Ben Kennedy (Achilles) and Daniel Alessi (knee) are out for the season.Troisi, however, insists Melbourne wont take them lightly.Weve watched the Jets a little bit and when theyre on, theyre on as well, he said.We take very team the same and approach every game the same.Greg Maddux Jersey . -- Its been a long road back for Sean Bergenheim. 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Didier Drogba gave away the penalty that put Senegal one goal away from a major upset, but the veteran striker will get another chance -- probably his last -- at the World Cup after Salomon Kalous injury-time strike sealed the Ivorians place in Brazil next year.WACO, Texas -- This is not how Baylor seniors wanted to be preparing for their final home game on the banks of the Brazos River.There is the three-game losing streak that has the Bears unranked for the first time in three years. Starting quarterback Seth Russell will soon have surgery after a gruesome left ankle injury. And there is no longer the chance of a third Big 12 title in four years.Im going to go out to practice tomorrow like my hair is on fire, senior cornerback Ryan Reid said Monday. We have to get this team going. We have to get this win. We have to.As freshman receiver and now part-time running back Blake Lynch put it: Mindset? Get back on the right track. Win.The Bears (6-3, 3-3 Big 12), who have gone a month since their last victory that got them to 6-0 and bowl eligible, play their home finale Saturday against Kansas State (5-4, 3-3).Before Russell got hurt in the third quarter of a 45-24 loss at Big 12-leading Oklahoma on Saturday, the Bears had consecutive losses that followed off-field distractions before the game.Acting head coach Jim Grobe said its been difficult all season trying to keep it together. ... We did a pretty good job of it up until the Friday before Texas, and thats when the Wall Street Journal (article) came out, and that stirred up the coaches. And of course if the coaches get stirred up, then the players get stirred up.Baylors 62-22 loss to TCU, the Bears worst home loss since 2005, came a day after assistant coaches and several staff members issued a statement on Twitter expressing their support for former coach Art Briles, who was fired in May. They were disputing claims by school regents that Briles knew of an alleged gang rape. There were also T-shirts sold and was even a banner flying with (hash)CAB, which stands for Coach Art Briles.That was a week aafter a 35-34 loss at Texas, after the Wall Street Journal article when a group of Baylor regents first provided some details about some of the allegations.ddddddddddddNow the Bears are trying to regroup for the closing stretch. After Kansas State, they play Texas Tech in the Dallas Cowboys NFL stadium and close the season at No. 10 West Virginia.I think our football team right now is just kind of focused on playing football. I think thats the mindset we ought to be in, Grobe said. At the start of the season, everyone wants to be Big 12 champs. Thats your goal, thats what you talk about all the time. And now were in a position where we need to just talk about playing good football. I thought we played hard last week, but we didnt play real good.Senior running back Shock Linwood, the schools career rushing leader, will be back to face K-State after being suspended for the Oklahoma game for what Grobe had described as attitude issues.Grobe said Monday there are times to give kids a reminder that their behavior is more important than their ability on the football field.Once weve done that, well see where we can go from here, but Im expecting were going to get a guy that comes back and does all the things we want him to do, Grobe said of Linwood, who holds Baylor career marks with 4,056 yards rushing and 36 touchdowns on the ground.True freshman Zach Smith will take over as the starting quarterback. After replacing Russell against Oklahoma, the sixth game hes played in this season, Smith was 6-of-15 passing for 144 yards and a touchdown.It was really heartbreaking what happened to Seth, Smith said. But Ive just got to honor him and go in there and do what I know I can. ' ' '