Australian media heavily focuses on captain Sam Kerr’s absence from team for opening game
Her absence is almost as much of a story as her presence would have been. ‘No Sam, no sweat: Matildas shake off Kerr plot twist to start wild cup ride with win’ reads the front page on the Australian the morning after the first game in Group B. “The show had to go on,” writes Will Swanton, “although for a moment the temptation might have been to turn out the lights and send everyone home”.
He was outraged at the “sneaky and deceitful” behaviour from the Matildas and the team officials: “If Kerr was injured, why not tell the nation, who spent Thursday promoting and lauding Kerr and her team-mates in anticipation of a global sporting extravaganza. We all feel pretty foolish now.” “They are Katrina Gorry running straight through Ruesha Littlejohn. They are Hayley Raso being an upstart on the wing and Ellie Carpenter saving a goal with her head.” She goes on: “They are the drums as the substituted Marissa Sheva, who conceded the penalty, cries on Ireland’s bench. [The Matildas are] the We Will Rock You beat kicking off in the stands as Lucy Quinn draws a stoppage time free kick. The heads in hands as it skims the crossbar.
Swanton in the Australian remarks on the crowd volume at every “harsh, desperate, borderline egregious tackle from the Irish. They played rough”.
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