Perth Glory coach Ruben Zadkovich has promised the club's loyal fans his players will give it their all when the team play their long-awaited first home game of the A-League Men season.
Glory were forced to spend their first five matches of the campaign on the road while their temporary new home - Macedonia Park - was being upgraded to become A-League ready.
The club will play most of their home games at the 4000-seat venue this season due to the unavailability of HBF Park, which is currently being spruced up ahead of next year's women's World Cup.
The last time Glory played an ALM match in Perth came in the final round of last season, when they shocked high-flying Melbourne City 2-0 in May.
Glory will be aiming to produce a similar shock when they host defending champions Western United on Saturday night.
"We'd love to do our fans and members proud," Zadkovich said.
"We want to give them something to believe in again.
"We know there's still a lot of work to be done and it's going to take time for us to be the team they want us to be and they deserve us to be.
"We just want to make them proud again. I can't guarantee results, but what we can do is guarantee effort."
Glory sit on bottom of the ladder after posting one win and four losses through the opening five games.
Western United sit just one point higher with one win, one draw and four losses in six matches.
Although the World Cup break has robbed Glory of match practice, Zadkovich said it had allowed the group to physically and mentally refresh.
"You've got to remember, some of the players in this current squad were part of Perth Glory during the toughest time in probably the club's history," Zadkovich said.
"(They were there) through COVID and back-to-back quarantine, and all those away games.
"It's mentally taxing spending time away from family and loved ones and kids. They had to sacrifice so much.
"It was nice for us to have some time at home to be with our loved ones (during the World Cup break)."
