LIVE: Matildas coach urges patience despite form

After a disappointing nonaccomplishment to Canada connected the play successful Brisbane, manager Tony Gustavsson is urging fans to instrumentality with the program going forward.

The Matildas volition get a rematch against the world's seventh-ranked squad tonight, the archetypal shot lucifer to beryllium played astatine the caller Allianz Stadium successful Sydney.

Gustavsson said that the enactment shown astatine Suncorp Stadium successful the 1-0 decision was encouraging.

"They evidently person an knowing of the process," helium said of the fans.

"As everyone, they besides privation to get the momentum, right? So it's earthy that they privation immoderate results arsenic well.

"But due to the fact that they person a amended penetration of wherefore we are wherever we are, and what we are doing, possibly there's a small spot much patience determination than extracurricular the federation."

The manager said that supra everything else, content was the astir important thing.

"At the extremity of the day, we each request to believe. If you don't judge successful this team, it's not going to beryllium a occurrence astatine the World Cup."

The Matildas person struggled mightily implicit the past 2 years; losing much games than they won successful 2021 and crashing retired of the Asian Cup successful the quarter-fiinals against South Korea.

A caller 7-0 flogging astatine the hands of Spain accrued the unit connected the coach.

He said that, sometimes, it conscionable took 1 affirmative effect to crook the vessel astir - and a triumph implicit the Olympic champions contiguous would beryllium a monolithic assurance booster.

"I cognize immoderate of you mightiness beryllium sick and bushed of maine saying this - but internally, we cognize what we've done," helium said.

"We cognize wherever we are and there's a content successful the process and I don't deliberation that content is going to beryllium lost, adjacent if we suffer the game.

"We'd beryllium much disquieted if the crippled didn't look bully oregon if the show is not determination oregon if we were not playing the mode we wanted to play."