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Football Association of Australia
11th briefing to prepare for Tokyo
the Olympics
Australia
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The national team has suffered three consecutive defeats during the recent European training period after losing 2:3 to Denmark in their latest warm-up match.
In the match held in the early hours of AEDT 11, Australia, ranked ninth in the world and first in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), was slightly better overall, but in the 25th minute of the match, a succession of mistakes in the back line led to the hosts' three consecutive defeats.
Nonetheless, the visitors, who remained active on the offensive end, launched a furious counterattack led by captain Kerr. In the last three minutes of the game, substitute 18-year-old star Mary Fowler scored her first career goal for the national team with a powerful shot from inside the box. In injury time, 32-year-old veteran Claire Polkinghorne took advantage of a corner kick and scored a header to tie the game at 2:3.
Head coach Toni Gustafsson has been in charge since the beginning of the year when he took over the Australian
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Since then, it has suffered three defeats.In the European Olympic preparation training in April, the Australian team lost to Germany and the Netherlands by large margins, conceding a total of 13 goals in three matches. However, Gustafsson did not send all the main force in the first two matches, intended to examine the strength of the players.
Gustafson has assisted the U.S. as an assistant coach
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Two-time winner of the
World Cup
Championship. The Australian media pointed out that the three games exposed obvious problems on the defensive end of the team, and the new manager's cooperation with the team still needs to be honed.
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will continue their European preparations with their next warm-up match against Sweden, who will meet in the group stage of the Olympic Games.
the Tokyo Olympics
women's soccer
A total of 12 teams are taking part in the tournament, which is divided into three groups for the group stage. Sweden, USA, Australia and New Zealand are in Group G. The first round of the tournament will start on July 21st. Our country
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Group F with Brazil, the Netherlands and Zambia. The top two finishers from each group and the two best third-place finishers advance to the knockout rounds.
