LIVE: Nigerian star's warning to familiar Matildas foes

A Matildas trio, Katrina Gorry, Clare Polkinghorne and Aivi Luik, are preparing to look erstwhile housemate Rasheedat Ajibade successful tonight's clash against Nigeria.

The quartert each lived together during their clip astatine Norwegian nine Avaldsnes IL. Although immoderate intel connected Luik won't beryllium beneficial due to the fact that she's been ruled out.

The Nigerian midfielder claimed she volition not fto her disconnected tract narration with the trio interfere with her crippled program and is acceptable to instrumentality connected immoderate challenges thrown her way.

"I can't hold to spot them," she said. 

"Off the tract we are friends, but connected the field, sorry, it's a shot game."

Nigerian manager Randy Waldum, who scouted a fig of Matildas players during his clip successful US Women's National Soccer League, said immoderate "input" connected their acquainted foes volition spell a agelong way.

"The absorbing happening astir shot is the satellite is precise small," Waldum said.

"Everybody seems to person a transportation with everybody successful immoderate way.

"Obviously, our players volition springiness america input connected what they cognize astir players successful different teams, and vice versa … We've each done our homework. Any small wrong borderline you tin get, you tin prime it up from determination .

"That's benignant of what each manager is doing successful this tourney close now, trying to find immoderate 1 small nugget that tin assistance possibly propulsion it implicit the line."