Sydney (AFP) - This year's AFC Champions League final has set up a contest between the competition's newest team and the continent's most decorated side for the title of Asia's best football club.Formed just two years ago, Australia's Western Sydney Wanderers are just a step away from lifting the continental title and earning a spot in the FIFA Club World Cup after a fairytale lead into Saturday's first leg at home.The Wanderers have knocked out several top sides, including defending champions Guangzhou Evergrande of China in the quarter-finals and 2013 runners-up FC Seoul of South Korea in the semi-finals.But coach Tony Popovic doesn't want to hear his team have done well just to qualify, saying the club has always had high ambitions."We don't want to be a club where you look back and say, you made the final, well done, but you didn't produce when it mattered," he said at a press conference Friday.Western Sydney are looking to become the first Australian club to lift the title, but standing in their way in the final are Saudi Arabian giants Al Hilal.Al Hilal have amassed dozens of international and domestic titles during their 57-year history, including a pair of Asian Club Championships in 1991 and 2000."I'll have no fear looking in their eyes," Popovic said."While I'm extremely proud of the group, we're here to win the final.

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