The 21-year-old was known as a centre-back before playing a full-back role in the 2015/16 A-League finals.

City are reliant on full-backs Josh Rose, Manny Muscat and Ivan Franjic to defend after the club conceded the third most goals last campaign.

And sfter playing as a right-back in the FFA Cup quarter-final against Western Sydney, Chapman said pre-season preparations were about training in different positions to promote greater flexibilty.

“We’ve worked on a few formations over the pre-season, I was a centre-back and right-back, so it depends on the game, so I’m just working hard,” Chapman said.

“There’s a lot of competition in the team, so wherever the coach puts you, you have to play and do your job, so I’m looking forward to how we go as a team on Saturday and hopefully I can play.

“I’ve always been more of a central player, I think I’ve played right-back a few games at the end of the year in the last final.

“Other than that, we’ve worked on it for the whole of preseason, so I’m not uncomfortable out there, it’s a position that isn’t my No.1 position, but I’m definitely not uncomfortable out there.”

Chapman also praised the work of new senior assistant coach Michael Valkanis after departing Adelaide United to continue his role.

Chapman said the flexibility would be beneficial should players be required to play different positions.

“He’s (Valkanis) got a lot of knowledge about the game, he’s brought a lot into the club and we’re not just working on the three at the back, we’ve worked on a few things,” he said.

“So at any possible time we can switch to whatever suits the team and as we saw against Wanderers, that formation worked well.

“But that doesn’t mean we’re going to stick to that formation throughout the whole year, so it could come up to what team we verse and what suits us.”