LIVE: Matildas put under early pressure by Nigeria

This is not bully for the Matildas, Cortnee Vine is connected the turf and she's taking a portion to get up.

She landed awkwardly aft a coming-together with a Nigerian hostile and looks to beryllium dealing with a spot of whiplash.

The Matildas tin ill-afford different wounded stroke with some Sam Kerr and Mary Fowler already sidelined.

Vine is forced to bash an on-field concussion trial by the Matildas aesculapian unit but looks to person travel done it well.

Matildas skipper Steph Catley with the archetypal large accidental arsenic the Nigerian keeper is forced into a bully save!

Catley got the shot backmost aft a country and was afforded acold excessively overmuch abstraction connected the close wing, and Nigeria is precise fortunate that she's not scored there.

Early informing shot.

It's been a agleam commencement from Nigeria successful this one, with the Aussie defence forced into immoderate enactment successful the opening 5 minutes.

End to extremity worldly present successful Brisbane.

Nigeria kicks disconnected and we're underway present astatine Suncorp Stadium!

The Matildas kicking to the close of surface successful the archetypal half, portion the Super Eagles volition footwear to the left.

We're conscionable minutes distant from the kick-off present arsenic the Matildas and Nigeria hole for the Welcome to Country and the 2 nationalist anthems.

Matildas manager Tony Gustavsson has had his last connection connected tonight's clash against Nigeria.

"Right present it's conscionable an electrical atmosphere. The mode the fans sent america disconnected from the edifice and what we felt, it's conscionable electric," helium told Optus Sport.

"The hostile volition effort to marque the crippled differently, these are 2 unsocial teams, Ireland and Nigeria.

"I deliberation there's going to beryllium much abstraction tonight, but Nigeria besides showed against Canada they tin marque the abstraction tight, truthful it's up to america to marque the abstraction tonight."

The Matildas tally retired to a roar from the assemblage already gathered astatine Brisbane Stadium.

The 3 goalies caput consecutive to the container arsenic the remainder of the squad begins their dynamic warm-up.

It is Emily van Egmond who comes into the starting XI for the concussed Mary Fowler, winning the enactment contention against instrumentality favourite Alex Chidiac.

Here's however Nigeria is lining up contiguous against the Matildas.

There's a large retired for the Super Eagles with Asisat Oshoala to miss retired for Nigeria, and that's a monolithic boost for the Matildas defenders.

She's been called the Sam Kerr of Nigeria.