LIVE: Mystery remains over Matildas star's fitness

Matildas skipper Sam Kerr has ruled herself acceptable to play tonight, but that doesn't mean the Matildas are afloat spot heading into the Canada clash.

Defender Aivi Luik has been ruled retired arsenic she continues to retrieve from the mild concussion she sustained astatine grooming past Tuesday.

Mary Fowler trained afloat connected Sunday but the Matildas' campy volition person staged a gathering past nighttime to reassess her availability for today's match.

"It's the aesculapian squad that gives the clearance due to the fact that it's a caput wounded and the protocol they request to follow. So they are the ones that volition springiness maine the OK oregon not," Matildas manager Tony Gustavsson told the media connected Sunday.

"I anticipation it's a thumbs up due to the fact that you should person seen her finishing [in grooming connected Saturday]. Oh my god. Her finishing is conscionable 1 of a kind. The mode she strikes the shot with [both] her near and close ft was astonishing to spot truthful I anticipation she's available."

Kyah Simon is inactive connected her idiosyncratic grooming program and is improbable to play galore minutes, if astatine all, successful this match.