Mamelodi Sundowns will be out to better their group stage record in the Champions League in front of the club's supporters as they welcome spectators to live action.
Sundowns co-coach Manqoba Mngqithi insists Saturday's CAF Champions League match against Al Merreikh remains of relevance in fulfilling their objectives as a club.
Sundowns are already through to the quarterfinals as group winners with the match against the Sudanese now being considered a dead rubber, but Mngqithi insists they have targets to meet so will play for a win.
The visitors cannot qualify for the last eight regardless of the result.
"For us, it doesn't really matter much that we have already secured a place in the quarter-finals," maintains Mngqithi outlining that they want to surpass the points tally they reached in this competition last season.
Sundowns have already pocketed 13 points – the same tally they amassed last season – and will improve on it by avoiding defeat at FNB Stadium.
"Our biggest competition is ourselves. We have a bigger responsibility to improve or better our benchmark which is the 13 points that we got in the group stages last season
"We have a responsibility to better that because it is important for us as a club to minimise the possibilities of seeing how stressful it is when you lose a match. So, we will try and give this match the respect that it requires and go out there with the mentality to win because that is important in how we want to finish the season," says Mngqithi.
Sundowns will have the Bafana Bafana players back and will play before the largest home crowd in two years after the government opened up venues to half of their capacities.
Forty-five thousand fans will be allowed at FNB.
"I think it will be unfair of me or anyone to complain about what has happened in the past instead of appreciating that we now have our supporters back at our matches. We urge our supporters to come in their numbers and we don't treat this match as a dead rubber. Supporters are an integral part of the game.
"We do feel for the supporters travelling from Mamelodi to FNB, but this is not in our hands," he says.