Australia’s longest-running women’s football podcast (est. April 2019).
retiring the correct spelling of slay for the next few weeks in favour of sleigh for the holiday season xx
— burke (@ejburke_) December 6, 2024
Asian Cup Job Opportunity!
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History: Holly McNamara, Matildas Cap 219
Matildas
Matildas 3-1 Taiwan
Matildas 6-0 Taiwan
Leah Davidson is Matildas cap #232
Chloe Lincoln is cap #233
Laura Hughes is cap #234
Matildas failed to plan well enough for the future, says coach Tom Sermanni (AAP / The Guardian)
Ha, love it Megan!
After not finding any previous rhyming Matildas simultaneous substitutes, after Prior and Freier both came on at half time v Brazil on Sunday, I’m pretty sure these are the first rhyming teammates let alone rhyming subs or scorers 😆 (excluding same surnames)— andrew howe (@AndyHowe_statto) December 4, 2024
NOT QUITE THE RECORD SORRY MARISSA… 4 players – Hayley Crawford, Olivia Hohnke Tal Karp and Amy Wilson – all got debut goals against Cook Islands in 2003 https://t.co/9b5giOZmzY
— andrew howe (@AndyHowe_statto) December 4, 2024
Yeah 4 Matildas debuts in an international window or series is the most for a while. Last time was Goad, Riley, Hunyh and Holmes in mid-April 2021.
There were 6 debuts in two games v NZ in June 2012, and 13(!) in one game v Hong Kong on 04-Aug-2007.— andrew howe (@AndyHowe_statto) December 7, 2024
All We Do Is Wini
2 – Winonah Heatley (@TheMatildas) won all of her duels (6/6), completed all of her dribbles (4/4) & tackles (2/2) in #AUSvTPE – only the 2nd player to log at least two in each for #Matildas & maintain a 100% success rate since Opta began collecting the data in 2016. Perfect. pic.twitter.com/yvLP7Gfq5a
— OptaJason (@OptaJason) December 7, 2024
Dub Round 5 Results
Wellington 2-1 Brisbane
Western United 2-1 Sydney
Adelaide 2-0 Newcastle
Perth 0-1 Victory
Dub Round 6 Fixtures (all times AEDT)
Fri Dec 13, 7pm – Victory v Wellington, Home of the Matildas
Sat Dec 14, 4:50pm – Wanderers v Western United, Western Sydney Stadium
Sat Dec 14, 6pm – Brisbane v Mariners, Perry Park
Sat Dec 14, 7:45pm – Sydney v Newcastle, Sydney Football Stadium
Sun Dec 15, 7:45pm – City v Canberra, Swan Street
Sun Dec 15, 8pm – Perth v Adelaide, Sam Kerr Football Centre
With the Leichhardt Oval pitch not back to its usual standard, this Sunday’s Ninja A-League Women’s clash has been moved to Allianz Stadium on Saturday 14th December, kicking off at 7:45pm ↔️
This will now form a Doubleheader with our Men’s side who kick off at 5pm in an early 2… pic.twitter.com/bkDkUWCLed
— Sydney FC (@SydneyFC) December 8, 2024
Futsal Tillies!
A training camp will be held from December 16 – 20 at The Centre in Dural (Sydney). After this, a final 14 player squad will be selected for the Asian Cup Qualifiers (January 11 – 19, in Uzbekistan).
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ICYMI
Alex Chidiac was on Guy Montgomery’s Spelling Bee!
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Spicy Posts
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Euro 2025 Qualification Playoffs
Czech Republic 1-2 Portugal (Portugal won 3-2 on aggregate)
Finland 2-0 Scotland (Finland won 2-0 on aggregate)
Belgium 2-1 Ukraine (Belgium won 4-1 on aggregate)
Republic of Ireland 1-2 Wales (Wales won 3-2 on aggregate)
Austria 0-1 Poland (Poland won 2-0 on aggregate)
Norway 3-0 Northern Ireland (Norway won 7-0 on aggregate)
Sweden 6-0 Serbia (Sweden won 8-0 on aggregate)
These playoff winners join Switzerland (hosts), Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Iceland, Denmark, England & Netherlands in Euro 2025 (2 – 27 July). The group stage draw will be held on 16 December.
WSL Results
Manchester United 4-0 Liverpool
Manchester City 4-0 Leicester
Tottenham 2-1 Everton
Arsenal 4-0 Aston Villa
Chelsea 4-2 Brighton & Hove Albion
West Ham 5-2 Crystal Palace
FA Cup 4th Round Draw
🎩 The @AdobeWFACup Fourth Round draw has been made:
London Bees vs Rugby Borough
Leicester City vs Stoke City
West Ham vs Liverpool
Arsenal vs Bristol City
Chelsea vs Charlton Athletic
Exeter City vs Sunderland
Cheltenham Town vs Wolves
Brighton vs Durham
Newcastle United vs…— Girls on the Ball (@GirlsontheBall) December 9, 2024
Queens, Kings and Themperors of the Week
Dale – Claudia Jenkins made a diving save at Sheridan Gallagher’s feet and is still alive!
Emma – Sharn Freier won a lot of new fans during the international window for her performances both on the field and in press conferences
Eric – 1) Victory Vikings watched Australia v Taiwan in Geelong, flew out to Perth the next day for Casey Dumont’s 150th Dub game, then flew back to Melbourne the day after 2) Rest In Peace to Hiroshi Kagawa, known as the world’s oldest soccer journalist, he passed away at the age of 99 – Joker) the people responsible for Leichhardt Oval’s pitch
Maj – 1) Mary Fowler scored a very nice goal against Leicester 2) Laini Freier made her A-League Women debut
A wonder strike from Mary Fowler 🤩#BarclaysWSL @ManCityWomen pic.twitter.com/2xMVW4NLM7
— Barclays Women’s Super League (@BarclaysWSL) December 9, 2024
Stat| Laini Freier becomes the 140th player to represent @brisbaneroar in the @aleaguewomen
WEL🟡2-1 🟠 BRI #ALeague #WELvBRI
— Brisbane Football Review (@BNEFootball) December 8, 2024
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