The Red Bulls will attempt to avoid on 0-fer, 0 for June, when they face the Houston Dynamo on Sunday afternoon in the club’s first home game since the first day of the month.

It will also be the Red Bulls’ first game in what seems like ages with the player who has emerged as their midfield engine, the indefatigable Tim Cahill, back from three grueling matches that sent his native Australia to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

“I’m buzzing,” Cahill said after training at Red Bull Arena on Friday. “You know, booked a ticket to Brazil with the Australian team and now back with my domestic league. I feel great, it’s been a long month away and sometimes i’ts hard to leave your team and the results haven’t gone our way, but I suppose overall I’m in a good place and looking forward to having a big finish with the team to the end of the season.”

With Cahill already having left on a jet plane, the Red Bulls began June by squandering a 1-0 lead and coughing up a late goal in Vancouver’s 2-1 win. Then came a deflating 4-2 debacle against New England in the U.S. Open Cup. And finally last week’s dreadful 3-0 loss at Philadelphia. Note that in Cahill’s absence, the Red Bulls scored one goal in Major League Soccer play and the club’s other designated player, Thierry Henry, looked forlorn in Cahill’s absence.