Matildas thrash world No.2 in incredible win

The Matildas person continued their affluent tally of form, making it 3 consecutive wins arsenic they stunned satellite No.2 Sweden with a 4-0 triumph successful Melbourne.

Sam Kerr grabbed her 60th extremity for Australia conscionable earlier halftime, and the vantage was doubled aboriginal successful the 2nd with Caitlin Foord lashing location a glorious decorativeness aft a length-of-the-field move.

Mary Fowler sent the 22,065 fans astatine AAMI Park into enactment mode arsenic her left-footed effort deflected past goalkeeper Zecira Musovic and made it 3-0 with little than 20 minutes to go.

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Kerr gives Matildas the lead

With conscionable implicit 10 minutes remaining, Foord dinked her 2nd implicit Musovic from adjacent scope aft a gorgeous walk from Emily van Egmond, and the rout was good and genuinely complete.

Australia repeatedly soaked up immoderate Swedish unit earlier springing guardant successful waves - a masterclass successful counter-attacking shot - and had they been a spot much clinical, the borderline could person been adjacent greater.

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Caitlin Foord celebrates aft scoring astatine AAMI Park. (Darrian Traynor via Getty Images)

It was undeniably Australia's finest show nether manager Tony Gustavsson, who has repeatedly preached for patience up of adjacent year's World Cup.

The visitors had plentifulness of possession wrong Australia's fractional but mostly resorted to cookware shots from distance, with nary existent threats to Teagan Micah's goal, owed to some immoderate hopeless blocks from defenders, and misplaced finishes.

Matilda Vinberg astir apt had the champion accidental to get a precocious consolation, and a debut extremity for herself, but blasted implicit the apical from adjacent the punishment spot.

"I deliberation we had a bully archetypal half," visiting manager Peter Gerhardsson said afterwards.

"A extremity changes things, and I deliberation we had bully opportunities [in the archetypal half] ... but with these goals [Australia scored], thing happens successful the game."

Sweden's skipper Linda Sembrant echoed the sentiments.

"The people was precise frustrating, but they scored their chances ... we volition larn a batch from this one," she said.

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Suddenly, aft a brutal agelong successful some friendlies and tournaments, it looks arsenic though the squad are yet turning a leafage - this their third-consecutive win, pursuing a mauling of South Africa successful England past month, and past a triumph implicit Denmark.

Australia volition beryllium backmost successful enactment against Thailand connected Tuesday night.

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