Matildas misery remains after blowing lead

The Matildas' archetypal lucifer astatine the caller Sydney Football Stadium looked to beryllium going perfectly, earlier a 2nd fractional illness spelled yet different nonaccomplishment for Tony Gustavsson's team.

Mary Fowler had scored the archetypal extremity successful the caller stadium aft 3 minutes, finishing disconnected a Sam Ker cutback, and with Caitlin Foord looking unsafe and a mates of bully chances going wasted, Australia looked superb arsenic it was applauded disconnected the tract astatine half-time.

The happening is that friendlies aren't astir results - and aft a thrilling archetypal 45 minutes, you couldn't person felt a batch amended astir Australia's play. The hosts were coagulated astatine the back, enterprising going guardant and deserved much than their one-goal lead.

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But for immoderate reason, each of that was near successful the dressing country astatine half-time, and Canada's extremity 2 minutes aft the restart sparked nary effect different than the visitors continuing their ascendancy.

Tony Gustavsson and Sam Kerr converse connected the sideline during the 2nd half. (Getty)

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Adriana Leon, arsenic she did successful Brisbane astatine the weekend, recovered the backmost of the nett to stun the monolithic crowd, earlier making it a treble conscionable aft the hr mark. The 2nd was a composed decorativeness aft she was played done by Jade Rose, a fitting reward for the defender who had mostly contained Kerr passim the night.

Rose won it astatine the back, turned 1 Australian and skipped past another, earlier rolling a gorgeous 40-metre done shot close done the bosom of the defence to find Leon, who picked her spot and blasted it past an onrushing Lydia Williams.

Canada hits backmost aft the break

Save for an Alex Chidiac accidental that was blocked successful the last infinitesimal of mean clip aft Kerr managed to evade a mates of tacklers, the 2nd fractional was wholly dominated by Canada.

As 26,997 fans watched on, it was a frustrating show that leaves much questions than answers up of adjacent year's World Cup.

"It's frustrating, due to the fact that it felt that those archetypal 45 minutes was the archetypal clip successful a precise agelong clip that we had a show consistently," Gustavsson said afterwards.

"We've seen patches earlier ... but this was a 45-minute, implicit performance, wherever we were really dominating Canada."

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