LIVE: Matildas frustrated by physical Irish skipper

The challenges are opening to travel successful heavy and accelerated and Ireland skipper Katie McCabe is astatine the centre of it.

The Matildas are not blessed aft McCabe gets distant without a paper arsenic she cleans up Hayley Raso with a brutal situation connected the close wing.

Still 0-0 arsenic we caput into the last fewer minutes of the archetypal half. The Matildas and this bumper assemblage some arsenic frustrated astatine the moment.

A spot of an wounded interest present for Ireland skipper Katie McCabe.

She's travel up clutching her near manus aft landing awkwardly pursuing a sliding situation arsenic the Matildas threatened.

McCabe gets her near manus taped up bully and choky and she's backmost retired connected the transportation now.

We're inactive locked astatine nil-all 36 minutes into this one. 

We're 20 minutes successful and scores are inactive level astatine nil-all, but Ireland has surely grown successful confidence.

They're starting to get a batch much shot successful their attacking fractional and Australia has been forced to defend.

Ireland looked to beryllium successful aft a astute shot implicit the apical of the defence, but defender Katrina Gorry got backmost successful the nick of time. 

The shot is surviving successful Ireland's fractional to commencement successful the archetypal 5 minutes of this match.

The Matildas doing the bulk of their attacking connected the near manus broadside of the field.

Ireland holding up beardown for present with the scores inactive 0-0.

Righto, we're disconnected and moving wrong Accor Stadium!

The Matildas footwear disconnected and volition footwear to the close of surface to commencement the archetypal half.

The 2 teams person waited successful the passageway agelong capable and they're retired connected the crushed now!

Steph Catley is starring the mode for Australia with Sam Kerr sidelined. 

The ambiance is perfectly electric, with the teams coming retired to what is virtually a lasting ovation. Unreal stuff. 

Here are the 22 players that volition instrumentality to the transportation contiguous arsenic the Matildas instrumentality connected Ireland.

Matildas prima Chloe Logarzo is backing her teammates in, adjacent without Sam Kerr.

"Mary (Fowler) coming successful and taking a nonstop swap to Sam is decidedly a large change, but the principles volition enactment the same," she says connected Optus Sport's coverage.

"The principles and processes enactment the same. The players mightiness change, but we accommodate and we determination on.

"I tin decidedly consciousness it coming from their (Ireland's) changeroom, they'll beryllium stoked."