Socceroos pound it out as Hiddink works for the finished article

Guus Hiddink will continue to pump the work into his Australian players in a week-long training camp as he builds on transforming the Socceroos into a competitive force at next month's World Cup in Germany.

Guus Hiddink will continue to pump the work into his Australian players in a week-long training camp as he builds on transforming the Socceroos into a competitive force at next month's World Cup in Germany.

The Australians brushed aside European champions Greece 1-0 in a winning farewell to their 95,000 fans in Melbourne Thursday and have two more warm-up games against the Netherlands and Liechtenstein before their opening match with Japan in Kaiserslautern on June 12.

The master Dutch coach left with his squad Friday for a training camp in Mierlo, Netherlands, where he will put the finishing touches to the Australians as they gear up to make their first World Cup finals' appearance in 32 years.

Hiddink is putting his squad through intense training to have them physically ready for what faces them in Germany.

After Japan, the Australians have further group matches against five-times champions Brazil and 1998 World Cup semi-finalists Croatia.

Hiddink, who coached Holland and South Korea to the semi-finals at the last two World Cups, is typically thorough in his preparations and will focus on what he feels is needed to further improve the Australian challenge.

"For me, it's important that things are decided on details," Hiddink said after Thursday's match decided by a spectacular 16th-minute long-range volley from midfielder Josip Skoko.

"I don't want to focus on the 70 percent we did well (against Greece), I want to focus on what we didn't do well.

"I want to focus on what has to be improved on for the World Cup."

Australia's performance was all the more impressive for the players who didn't face the Greeks -- injured trio Harry Kewell, Tim Cahill and John Aloisi -- who all played leading roles in the Socceroos' qualifying win over Uruguay last November.

Kewell stayed behind in England for treatment on a groin injury and is scheduled to meet up with the Australian squad when they arrive in Holland this weekend, while Cahill and Aloisi may be fit to face the Dutch.

Pragmatic Hiddink knows what lies ahead for his team and is plotting another gruelling schedule of training sessions for the players over the next week ahead of their second warm-up game with Holland in Rotterdam on June 4.

"The spin-off of the tough work we did this week will be there at the end of next week," Hiddink said.

"If we don't go very deep in our training sessions physically and just think of this game (Greece) then we will lose the power we need later on.

"The pay-off time in the coming week will be gathering more physical strength."

Hiddink has transformed the Australian team into a vibrant attacking force, packing the midfield with clever passing players and forcing teams into errors with pressing defence.

"The team now knows exactly what position each player has to do. I can shuffle around some of the players in various positions and that's nice, but the foundations must be good physical strength," he said.

Hiddink realises the massive step-up his team will encounter against the Dutch, but does not rule out spoiling their 'farewell party.'

"We have probably improved a couple of spots in the FIFA rankings to under 40 after beating Greece, but Holland are ranked second in the world," Hiddink said.

"That means they have won a lot of games recently, they are a very strong team, but being a Dutchman I like to make a good surprise in my home country and we have one week to work and make it very interesting," he said.