Reeling from the heartbreak of falling short in their Women's World Cup semi-final, the Matildas believe they can still reap silverware from their golden generation.
That journey starts with picking themselves up from their 3-1 loss to England and beating Sweden in Saturday's third-place play-off in Brisbane to ensure they don't leave their home tournament empty-handed.
"We had left everything out there, gave it our all and to be so close to playing for the World Cup, it’s incredible and I guess it’s just disappointing," winger Caitlin Foord said on Thursday.
"But we’ve had time to reflect on it and we still have a game to go and we don’t want to leave this tournament empty-handed and we think we deserve to go home with something after the tournament we’ve had.
"So we’ll leave it all out there Saturday and hopefully end on a high.
"It's extremely important. The first thing that came to my mind was the Olympics when we fell short and then we battled for the bronze medal match.
"Nothing hurt more than losing that game (to the USA). So we have that in the back of our mind going into this game and we deserve to go home with something from this tournament."
Australia's run that has captured the nation - including reaching a record TV audience of 11.15 million people for their semi-final clash, with an average figure of 7.13 million - was brought to a screeching halt on Wednesday.
Plenty of the Matildas' top players are either on the wrong side of 30 or not far off it - meaning this World Cup presented a golden opportunity for success.
Lydia Williams (35), Clare Polkinghorne (34), Aivi Luik (38), Kyah Simon (32) and Tameka Yallop (32) are the squad's oldest players.
Sam Kerr (29), Steph Catley (29), Katrina Gorry (31), Foord (28), Alanna Kennedy (28), Hayley Raso (28) and Emily van Egmond (30) will be at the tail end of their careers, or retired, by the time the 2027 World Cup rolls around.
"Everyone's going to be hurting. The veterans probably more - we don't really have another World Cup in us," Gorry told reporters.
"So it's a tough one to swallow at the moment.
"But we'll all get around each other, we'll make sure that we're ready to go for the next game. Because we want that bronze medal.
"It's dangling right in front of us. Australia has got us here so far, we're not going to let them down."
It took England three consecutive semi-finals, after heartbreak in 2015 and 2019, to finally break through for a World Cup decider.
Catley, at her third World Cup, pointed to Mary Fowler (20) and Kyra Cooney-Cross (21) as reasons to continue to believe.
"It does take a while and we've made enough quarter-finals, enough round of 16s," she said.
"You learn a lot from those moments. Some of these young girls that have just stepped in, and they've now played in a semi-final, they're going to learn so much and they're going to be so much more prepared for the next time it comes around.
"The fact that they've got that so early in their careers is massive.
"Some of the players that we've seen come through: Mary, Kyra, the way they've performed; Clare Hunt, there's so many.
"They just stepped up - they look so ready, they've got long careers ahead of them. Hopefully we're developing loads more girls that can come in and step in when they need to.
"Hopefully us old ducks can hold on a little bit longer and push for some more trophies."
