Shocking blunder the difference as Nigerians spring upset

Matildas skipper Steph Catley laments a "massive opportunity" missed by the location side.

"Obviously highly disappointed," she told Optus Sport.

"I thought this was a monolithic accidental for america that we've evidently fto slide, but it's tourney shot and this benignant of happening happens.

"It was decidedly not our champion performance. I deliberation we created a batch of opportunities that we perchance could've finished ... if immoderate of those spell in, possibly it's a antithetic story, but they were large connected the antagonistic and finished their chances. We've conscionable got to deliberation to Canada now.

"A batch of things (went wrong). We forced the shot going guardant a small bit, we weren't diligent capable astatine times and we weren't clinical.

"We've conscionable got to determination connected arsenic speedy arsenic imaginable due to the fact that this is what World Cups are about.

"We're up against the partition present and it's not however we would've liked it, but thing bully comes easy."