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MELBOURNE, Australia – There was one staff that confirmed as much as play at AAMI Park on Monday night time and it wasn’t Canada. The Matildas had their backs up towards the wall in a should win scenario and so they turned up and delivered a 4-0 win. Australia will head to the spherical of 16 and Canada will head residence after being eradicated.

It was demise by a thousand paper cuts as Australia was first-class from begin to end. They had been methodical, affected person, and scientific in entrance of objective. Whereas Canada struggled to finish a easy go, Australia managed the play and Canada was taking part in catch up all night time.

“Heading into the sport we couldn’t quit an early objective,” Christine Sinclair stated postgame. “We all know they’d get momentum and vitality from that. They scored and we weren’t capable of get well from that. As the sport went on, we pushed numbers ahead and so they simply scored.”