Getting close to France and England friendlies.
October 5th and 9th. Squad should be announced soon...

A lot of recent talk about workload, we could see a lot of players rested and many new players getting tested.

Full backs and the GK seem to be the only change... vs Indonesia.

S11
/----------------------/GK-K.Pritchard/----------------------/
/----------/CB-3-I.Wallhead/-----/CB-5-J.Nash/-------------/
/RB-2-O.De La Harpe/-------------------------/LB-22-E.Illijoski/
/--------------------/DM-10-D.Malone/---------------------/
/-----/CM-11-C.Farmer/-----/AM-16-N.Stamatopoulos/-----/
/RW-23-A.Jancevski/-----------------------/LW-19-J.Jasnos/
/--------------------/S-21-G.Beaumont/--------------------/

11-0 win over Indonesia.

Team will look alot different early next year. This is just the first phase.
Alot of kids injured or N/A.

Kerr's Chicago Red Star losing their NWSL semi final against North Carolina.

Portland Thorns' Ellie Carpenter, Caitlyn Foord and Hayley Rasso will get a big Cascadian crowd hosting the grand final (or whatever they call it) at 06:30am AEST Sunday morning.

I'll be at work but hope to find a stream to watch out of the corner of my eye, will post if I find one, and please do the same if any of you do. Should be a good one.

Stream will be on the website.

http://www.nwslsoccer.com/game/north-carolina-courage-vs-portland-thorns-2018-09-22

U16 Matildas smashing hosts Kyrgyzstan in the qualifiers 10-0 despite them keeping it to three goals in the first half.

Final game is against Taiwan who we're level with on points for first place, who also smashed Palestine by a big number but got a far more modest 1-2 win over Kyrgyzstan. A draw would have us through in first, however, but a loss might have us miss out in a best 3 of 6 runner-up qualifiers (or 2 of 6, depending where finals hosts Thailand end up; it might be just two of six due to Thailand facing Iran in their last game) due to the lopsided results in other groups causing similar blowouts.

China has scored 46 goals with 0 conceded so far in three games. Not a typo. But they could still finish second with Uzbekistan who could overtake them in first with a win in the final game, so good luck beating that in the best runners-up standings.

Nice. Do we know if this source is geoblocked?

You can watch every game live on there. No it's not geoblocked for international viewers,

Thanks for that.

Just found out that no equivalent of Premier's Plate winners in the NWSL have ever gone on to win their playoff final in the league's six-year history, which might be good news for Portland despite North Carolina finishing their 24 game regular season 15 points clear of second-placed Portland.

huge step up for u16 matildas in the next round. Need to improve 10 fold to beat Japan, North/South Korea, China...
I've watched every game so far... next game should be more difficult than the previous 3. Still should be an easy victory against Chinese Taipei.

Best 11 + subs so far imo.

Bailey-GK (Pritchard, Jones)
Wallhead-CB (Douglas)
Fenton/=/Nash-CB
De La Harpe-RB (Dubbert)
Johnson-LB (Illijoski)
Malone-DM (Rule)
Zois-CM (Farmer, Mckenna)
Stamatopoulos-AM
Jancevski/=/Morley-RW
Jasnos-LW (Hunt)
Beaumont-S

I'm sure we will see alot of improvement and roster changes before February.

any overseas players ?

Mary Fowler hopefully. No guarantee she'll play for Aus. Can still play for Ireland or png.
A very good RW, DM and LB were not available due to injury etc.

7-0 over Chinese Taipei

1 at oxford u16 and 1 at southampton u16 (banging in goals galore) both originate from same club in Brisbane.

A full game for Caitlyn Foord and 93 minutes for Ellie Carpenter for Portland Thorns in their 3-0 loss to North Carolina in the NWSL final.

Mini Matildas level dirkvanAdidas?

Easily, would be good to see mini Vs decent opposition as from watching the games it is below rtc level ( elite  club comp in England)

Squad for euro friendlies...

GK
Arnold
Whyman

DF
Polkinghorne
Crummer
Catley
Carpenter

MF
Butt
Kellond-Knight
Luik
Sayer
Chidiac
Simon

FW
Foord
Ibini
Logarzo
Devanna
Gielnik
Fowler

No Williams, Kennedy, VanEgmond, Raso(injured), Kerr

Not sure why they are bringing so few defenders. Maybe catley is starting cb and kk will be playing lb.

Got to wonder why young strikers like siemsen are not getting there shot or new cbs.

These EA guys have no idea do they..

https://matildas.footballaustralia.com.au/news/every-westfield-matildas-fifa-19-ratings-revealed

Matildas vs France tomorrow morning 5am on fox sports.

Bump

0-0 with France at 25'

Don't like the setup.
Clearly stajcic does not trust Crummer at cb yet. Playing her at rb.

At the back, he could have had
Carpenter/Polkinghorne/Catley/Kellond-Knight

Not sure why Arnold is still number 2. Campbell is a much more solid goalie.

Way too many wayward passes, very similar to the joey’s in midweek and something we’ve seen before. That’s down to coaching and the temperament of the players.

Not a lot to see today, we were outclassed but hopefully will be better for the experience.

https://matildas.footballaustralia.com.au/video/full-time-highlights-australia-v-france-0

2 nil loss here.  France's second goal a peach.

Arnold's parry instead of catchin it cost us the first goal.

Polkinghorne should have closed the space on that second goal. You don't track back and keep distance between you when you have cover beside you.

Tanya Oxtoby manager of the month
The 36-year-old has been rewarded with September's manager of the month award from the League Managers Association
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45784500

Joe Montemurro on top of the table with Arsenal.

Wow, we are terrible atm. Shows how little depth we have.
Staj has got to stop playing players out of position. Foord looks lost at lb. Makes no sense...
Arnold should not be the number 2.

1:1 draw with England. Late Polkinghorne goal. 

Obviously we’ll take a 1-1 but how we didn’t lose that by 4 or 5 goals I don’t know.

These two games should bring the Matilda’s down to earth a bit - theres no need for panic but it’s a reminder the quality in world football extends beyond the USA and Brazil, and that our available squad depth needs extending, and no matter who is playing we need to cut out the friggin basic turnovers.