Melbourne City stalwart Steph Catley is set to continue at centre-back for the Matildas with an injury cloud still hanging over Clare Polkinghorne as Australia prepare to take on Jamaica in their final group match in the Women's World Cup.
Polkinghorne missed the stirring win over Brazil when coach Ante Milicic rolled the dice, making several changes including playing Elise Kellond-Knight in Catley's regular left-back spot, Catley in the middle and bringing in Emily Gielnik up front.
Matildas coach Ante Milicic.Credit:AP
Milicic may ring the changes again for the Jamaica game, which the Matildas are expected to win. So far in France, the Reggae Girlz have lost 3-0 to Brazil and 5-0 to Italy.
He has to weigh up whether some of his regulars need a rest, especially after the taxing Brazil game.
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Emily van Egmond, Ellie Carpenter and Chloe Logarzo, all central figures in that epic victory in Montpellier, did not train with the main group during the penultimate session.
"You don't just look at the start of the tournament, you look at where we have come from," he said.
"If you look at what the game took out of us, and what we have moving forward, there's three games in 10 days so we have got to try, as much as possible, to adjust loads to give us the best chance of performing on match day.
Melbourne City stalwart Steph Catley is set to continue at centre-back for the Matildas with an injury cloud still hanging over Clare Polkinghorne as Australia prepare to take on Jamaica in their final group match in the Women's World Cup.
Polkinghorne missed the stirring win over Brazil when coach Ante Milicic rolled the dice, making several changes including playing Elise Kellond-Knight in Catley's regular left-back spot, Catley in the middle and bringing in Emily Gielnik up front.
Matildas coach Ante Milicic.Credit:AP
Milicic may ring the changes again for the Jamaica game, which the Matildas are expected to win. So far in France, the Reggae Girlz have lost 3-0 to Brazil and 5-0 to Italy.
He has to weigh up whether some of his regulars need a rest, especially after the taxing Brazil game.
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Emily van Egmond, Ellie Carpenter and Chloe Logarzo, all central figures in that epic victory in Montpellier, did not train with the main group during the penultimate session.
"You don't just look at the start of the tournament, you look at where we have come from," he said.
"If you look at what the game took out of us, and what we have moving forward, there's three games in 10 days so we have got to try, as much as possible, to adjust loads to give us the best chance of performing on match day.
