Socceroo hero Kennedy keen for double duty

Striker Josh Kennedy doesn't want to be one of the Socceroos rested from their 48-hour international football survival test.

Kennedy, who scored twice on his return to the national team in the 3-0 win over New Zealand in Adelaide on Sunday, is happy to do double duty in the clash with Serbia in Melbourne on Tuesday night.

The Adelaide match was his first national team outing in eight months, with a back injury keeping him out of the Asian Cup.

And now - in front of a home crowd - the Japan-based Victorian wants more and hopes coach Holger Osieck will give him some role at Etihad Stadium against the world No.16.

"Backing up and playing two games in two days, it's obviously a big ask when we've obviously got (club) games on the weekend," said Kennedy, originally from northeast Victoria.

"When you come back (to Australia), you always want to play games. It's an international, it's my hometown Melbourne game. Of course you want to play."

Kennedy's J-League club side Nagoya Grampus play Jubilo Iwata on Saturday.

But after his double against the Kiwis, Kennedy - a striker who keeps goalscoring form once he finds it - would love another chance to boost his international goal tally.

What made the 28-year-old happiest about his second goal - a headed bullet from a corner - was that it was a set-piece worked on in training prior to the match.

With Kennedy and fringe Socceroos like James Troisi and Michael Zullo performing well, there was also hope that Australia's depth is developing nicely ahead of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers starting later this year.

"The second goal - we'd worked on it in training and it worked out really well," Kennedy said.

"We played well as a team, and every game we better as we play with each other."