China V Australia: Women’s Asian Cup 2026 Semi-final – Live

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Early returns are in, and nan Matildas religious look to o.k. of Montemurro’s changes.

Yes I snuck my ain tweet successful there, writer me.

Matildas XI

The line-ups are successful and Montemurro has made 2 changes to nan squad that defeated North Korea.

Catley, arsenic expected, comes backmost into nan XI. Somewhat much unexpectedly, however, she comes successful astatine nan disbursal of Wini Heatley to partner Clare Hunt astatine centre-back, pinch Kaitlyn Torpey’s awesome capacity successful deputising astatine left-back against nan North Koreans rewarded pinch a second-consecutive start. Ellie Carpenter, meanwhile, starts connected nan right.

In nan midfield, Kyra Cooney-Cross comes successful for her first commencement of nan tournament, replacing Emily Van Egmond successful nan XI – nan seasoned needing to travel disconnected nan chair if she’s to grounds a record-setting 170th quality for nan Matildas this evening.

Katrina Gorry and Kennedy clasp their places successful nan mediate of nan park, arsenic do Kerr, Caitlin Foord, and Mary Fowler successful nan last third.

Missed really nan Matildas sewage here? If you’re nan tense benignant and of nan greenish and golden persuasion, possibly it’s amended that you did, fixed that Joe Montemurro’s broadside had to batten down nan hatches and thrust retired an onslaught from North Korea.

Here’s nan lucifer study from Sam Lewis, who is connected nan crushed coming successful Perth.

In nan discourse of tourney football, of course, it doesn’t matter really you triumph games. It’s important to ever support that successful mind erstwhile we’re analysing games.

But nan triumph complete nan North Koreans was an absorbing 1 successful that it simultaneously postponed an intensification of sermon surrounding nan team’s move into a caller era nether Montemurro and, successful avoiding elimination successful nan quarterfinals for nan second-straight tournament, gave it nan overmuch needed abstraction it needs to occur, arsenic good arsenic removed nan scope bad actors to hijack nan conversation.

double quotation markChina are a formidable force supercharged by Australian insiders, making Tuesday night’s semi-final astatine Perth Stadium nan Matildas’ toughest trial of nan Women’s Asian Cup truthful far.

Here’s Jack Snape’s look up to tonight’s fixture.

Preamble

Joey Lynch

Howdy all, and invited to nan Guardian’s penultimate minute-by-minute of nan Women’s Asian Cup, coming bringing you each nan action arsenic nan Australia look disconnected pinch China astatine Perth Stadium, pinch some sides looking to punch their tickets to Saturday’s final.

Can nan Matildas do it? They were forced to settee for 2nd successful Group A aft drafting 3-3 pinch South Korea and past had to thrust their luck to a smash-and-grab 2-1 triumph complete North Korea successful nan past 8 but now, a chance astatine silverware is conscionable 90 (or possibly 120, aliases 120 minutes and penalties) minutes away.

For a aureate procreation of players (2010 champion Sam Kerr notwithstanding), a chance astatine a first trophy successful greenish and golden is agonisingly close, pinch 2 of nan astir celebrated of that cohort – Steph Catley and Hayley Raso – passed fresh to play aft missing nan quarter-finals pinch concussion.

The shape is group for personification to look arsenic a hero, possibly astonishment talisman Alanna Kennedy, whose thunderbolt against nan North Koreans put nan broadside connected their measurement to triumph and who, arsenic a converted centre-back, leads nan aureate footwear title arsenic a protect midfielder.

Standing successful their way, however, are nan defending champions. And successful nan opposing dugout a acquainted face: nan man who led nan Matildas to nan 2019 Women’s World Cup, Ante Milicic, now plotting his erstwhile group’s downfall astatine nan caput of nan Steel Roses.

An intriguing title awaits. Let’s get into it. Kick-off clip is 6pm local/9pm AEDT.