The duo are not expected back in England until late on Thursday 14th which leaves them with less than 48hrs to recover from traveling 25,000 miles around the world, and playing two games.
Socceroos coach Frank Farina has named a full strength squad for the two Oceanian Cup games, the winners will represent Oceania in the eight nation Confederation Cup in Germany next year.
The full squad which includes other Premiership players is as follows:
John Aloisi, Eddy Bosnar, Marco Bresciano, Tim Cahill, Scott Chipperfield, Simon Colosimo, Ahmad Elrich, Brett Emerton, Vince Grella, Zeljko Kalac, Harry Kewell, Steve Laybutt, Stan Lazaridis, Ante Milicic, Craig Moore, Kevin Muscat, Lucas Neill, Tony Popovic, Mark Schwarzer, Josip Skoko, Mile Sterjovski, Danny Tiatto, Tony Vidmar, Mark Viduka, Max Vieri.