Just over 24hrs to go. Still the questions over Kerr’s fitness.
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Fire up now.
What’s the word been with Kerr? I presume the same as the last game - on the bench just in case but best if we don’t need her at all?
Should be an insane atmosphere tomorrow night. Approx 80k people, knock out match in a home World Cup. Doesn’t get much bigger
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I’d be surprised if we see her at all. Still convinced shes out for the tournament
In all fairness, every player who isn’t starting is “on the bench” at a World Cup. The allowed substitutes is however many players are not ruled out through suspension.
I reckon Kerr will only come on if there’s five minutes to go and we’re a goal down, or if we’re two minutes from a penalty shoot-out. I don’t see her being risked otherwise.
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It’s stadium Australia… It’s not going to be insane atmosphere.
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Tony Gustavsson has, in fact, telegraphed it already, referring to Kyah Simon and specifying the sort of impact she could have on the latter stages of the tournament as a ‘game-changer’ in one of his press conferences. Don’t be surprised if this game or another goes all the way and in the final minutes of stoppage time, Simon - who has nerves of steel and shown up in many big Matildas moments over the years - is brought on simply to take a penalty.
Why does this not start till 8.30pm?
There’s an extra hour between kick-off times now to allow for the chaos of last night (ET / penalties).
Guess it’s the lesser evil compared to England vs Nigeria starting at 4:30pm.
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England vs Nigeria is on at 5:30, and they need to allow for 120 mins + PKs. Then the pre-game show needs to say PK no less than 40 times prior to the next game kicking off.
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Fair enough. Two games and time for extrqas and pennos makes sense.
Doesn’t explain why game 1 doesn’t start at 4pm mind!
Hospital is closed tonight, I’m putting a sign on the door.
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Are you gonna be right for work tomorrow, staying up past 8.30 on a school night!
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No! I’m going to be grumpy!
Named an unchanged lineup from the Canada game
Crowd sounds so loud on TV
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Denmark looking really good