Agree with that. Players need minutes. Grant should have come on way earlier and Chidiac for Raso.

Had tickets to Sydney and brisbane. Was planning Brisbane until tonight. Sydney it is.

Yewwww 

If there were 10 stadiums around Australia that were like AAMI park the A league would be humming.

We only used 14 out of the 23 available so I hope it doesn't bit us back when tournament fatigue sets in.

Much better performance tonight although it helped us that Canada wanted the ball which helped us to play to our strengths which is the transition (typical of Aus football in general) but when had it we were much more effective with it especially on the left.
Foord was great on the left and Fowler and EvE up front as false 9s was also effective so credit to Gustafson for trying something a bit different.

However I must say Canada were pretty poor, they did not look threatening with the ball which suited us and we defended well and Arnold had little to work with but tactically their were all over the place especially that they only needed a draw.

It will be interesting to see how we will go in the knockout stages, teams might actually do what Canada did badly which is by giving us more of the ball knowing our limitations in possession so we will see but overall a relief we are through and avoided a disaster in the process.

Anything can happen in the knockout stages so bring it on id say! 

I was grim after Nigeria. I didn't think we would do it. A massive performance with much better control and build up play. Fowler was immense. Amazing to see a Cairns girl do so well!

Me and mate punted on rd of 16 tix when they went on sale. We backed the Matilda's to top the group. We needed the Matilda's to win and Nigeria to draw or lose. So pumped it came through! Trip to Sydney here we come! 

Mate how am I supposed to sleep after that 

One of the best games I've been to 

Even John Aloisi saying Tony should have used more subs to rest the starting X1. Shame we didn’t see Chidiac. But great performance overall. Canada really had a shocker 

ill have to settle for Ian Wright telling us how we 'handled the pressure' =]

Yay.. more football in my life. Overall enjoying watching the girls! Great win!

All we need now is Ned Zelic to tell us about the 'individual brilliance' Flower and Raso showed tonight and it would be 'just like old times'

Excellent response tonight but Canada were just woeful! 

All hindsight but I agree some of the squaddies would've had the energy to close it down.

The drama of VAR review then the build up to the ref announcing it with that squeaky voice...... I won't laugh this hard for the rest of the week

he stan-on-de-put PENALTY

4-nil that is a massive result for us 

Well Done 

- im in a MUCH BETTER MOOD after this game compared to the Nigeria match

Wow can we get this ref at the next WC jeeesuss

we got a pen - i think we will be alright 

Yep. That's a pen! 

FT in Brisbane. Goalless between Ireland and Nigeria. We've got 7min to prevent 3 goals.

Fowler and Raso have been elite

3-0 up with less than 10 plus stoppage time to go. Why doesn't Gustavsson manage his team? Another game in a few days, he should be using all his subs to rest players.

https://ultra.zone/2023-FIFA-Womens-World-Cup-Group-Stage#group=b

thats ending nil-nil 

unfortunately for ROI they are heading home 

I'm watching TSN which, is Canadian. They are saying their domestic league isn't as 'great' as they want it to be.
Almost made me feel our W-League was half decent for a second. 

2 late Ireland goals and 1 Canada goal would see it come down to bookings between Canada and Nigeria. 

https://www.zdf.de/sport/fussball-wm/livestreams/fussball-frauen-wm-2023-irland-nigeria-gruppe-b-livestream-100.html

Nig-Ire on German TV, Works with VPN. Still goalless. 

It's probably secondary but a group win sees us play next at Stadium Australia (didn't realise they'd sorted it for others except opener and final)

A group win sees a likely avoidance of England but then a probable France or Germany should they make the quarters. Colombia in the semis @tsf? :D

In short all bloody tough but let's just hold here for another 20.

Nigeria would jump is on 7 points. Their game is 7 mins ahead of ours. 

Just realised the Olympic gold medalists are staring at elimination in the group stages.