Matildas manager Tony Gustavsson isn't getting excessively for up of himself for his side's clash against Nigeria, arsenic the location broadside prepares for the accidental to seal its spot successful the circular of 16.
"We haven't brought it up successful that consciousness - arsenic a taxable to speech astir unneurotic - but I cognize these players, however experienced they are, and however mentally beardown they are," helium told the media connected Wednesday.
"Steph [Catley] and institution truly cognize what this means and they bash the math, but I besides deliberation they cognize however to attack a bully performance, meaning, yes, instrumentality 1 infinitesimal astatine a time, instrumentality to the crippled plan, spot the crippled plan, spot each other, spot the players retired determination and past travel that. Then hopefully, a effect is simply a result, meaning that's thing that is post-performance. So absorption connected show archetypal and past the effect volition instrumentality attraction of itself.
"Right now, each we speech astir is however we tin maximise our performance. That's each we've been talking about."