I looked at most articles on the poor match the Matildas had against France.
No-one but no-one wrote about the woeful refereeing performance. Could it be the fact she made decisions that favoured us almost all the time. She was either incompetent or worse. Two examples. Kennedy made a meal of a miskick and grabbed the French woman's jersey. This is an automatic yellow card given where and when it occurred. NOTHING happened.
In the second half a French player was cut and bled when she tried to head a ball a Matildas player raised her boot to attempt to kick it. This should have been an indirect free kick. NOTHING happened.
The French have a very good reason to be very upset about the referee. Mere competent refereeing could have meant a different result with their players having a different attitude.
As for the game we were lucky the French were not at their best. Before this game we put away most of our goal scoring chances. not this game. Nor could we score when Kerr came on the big MO changed our way.
I thought in the Olympic games Fowler was a talent in the making and I do feel she COULD become our greatest ever female player. She has wonderful skill for a female player and now we can add rare vision as well. Her penalty was fantastic
To go further we need both Kerr and Fowler to play as combined we should score first. We are poor at coming when we are behind. Too often we resort to the long ball for Kerr to run onto.
Whoopsy I forgot to mention there is a very good reason why we have had the smallest number of players that have played thus far. We do not have the quality! This may well hurst us.
We might win the world cup but I doubt it. I am wrong some times. Just ask my wife!
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