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Matildas friendlies in April 2026

Three further changes for the Matildas. Remy Siemsen, Alex Chidiac and Izzy Gomez coming on in the 85th minute for Sam Kerr, Clare Wheeler and Kaitlyn Torpey respectively.
 
Full time at the Nyayo National Stadium, with the Matildas running out 2-0 winners over Kenya to win the FIFA Series and join the Socceroos in having won the title, courtesy of goals to Sam Kerr and Clare Wheeler in the 25th and 54th minute respectively.
 
India defeated Malawi 3-2 in the third place match to finish third in the FIFA Series, meaning that Malawi finish with the spoon and hosts Kenya finish as runners-up.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
Referee now saying that Caitlin Foord's 60th minute goal hit the side netting rather than going into the back of the net but replays clearly show the ball heading straight into the goal.
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I don’t know what the ref did disallow it for, but from this screenshot it looks like Sayer may have been offside from the initial pass.
 
Always nice to win trophies and series, but I'm unsure how much this would have benefitted the girls. Would have liked to have seen some more bold decisions by Joe in terms of who was starting and playing, and getting full minutes. Also could have been nice to try 1 or 2 different tactics or plans.
 
zimbos05 said:
Always nice to win trophies and series, but I'm unsure how much this would have benefitted the girls. Would have liked to have seen some more bold decisions by Joe in terms of who was starting and playing, and getting full minutes. Also could have been nice to try 1 or 2 different tactics or plans.
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Agree that we should have given a keeper debut to Morgan Aquino or even started Chloe Lincoln between the sticks for the game against Kenya instead of fielding a full strength playing list and having Mackenzie Arnold in goal for both matches, in addition to probably giving Leticia McKenna a starting debut for at least one of the games.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
Agree that we should have given a keeper debut to Morgan Aquino or even started Chloe Lincoln between the sticks for the game against Kenya instead of fielding a full strength playing list and having Mackenzie Arnold in goal for both matches, in addition to probably giving Leticia McKenna a starting debut for at least one of the games.
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Gomez and Nash too.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
Izzy Gomez only got ten minutes all FIFA Series and Jessika Nash did not get any game time altogether across the two matches which isn't really helping them with their development in the senior Matildas setup.
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It seems like Montemurro is hoping that the ‘older players’ will stick around for the World Cup next year and he will tinker around for edges with the rebuilding of the a new squad.
 
zimbos05 said:
Always nice to win trophies and series, but I'm unsure how much this would have benefitted the girls. Would have liked to have seen some more bold decisions by Joe in terms of who was starting and playing, and getting full minutes. Also could have been nice to try 1 or 2 different tactics or plans.
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Literally no point at all. Next window I wanna see a properly rotated squad play against a decent but not great nation. We had a rotated squad against Taiwan in Geelong and won 6–0 so it’s not like the kids would make a bad team (based on that perhaps they work together better than the seniors who have struggled at times despite their individual abilities and greatness at club level). Any ideas?
 
libelous said:
It seems like Montemurro is hoping that the ‘older players’ will stick around for the World Cup next year and he will tinker around for edges with the rebuilding of the a new squad.
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I hope the Olympics becomes under-23s like the boys not gonna lie. The girls play too many games and keep getting injured. Combine that with the new Club World Cup and players at clubs like Chelsea or Lyon will be playing games all the time. Then we can also see how each team’s next gen looks (interestingly despite the money catching up with the men’s game countries like Sweden still produce insanely good youth players, look at 19-year-old Felicia Schröder for example who I think will score 40+ goals this season in the Damallsvenskan before leaving Häcken).
 
zimbos05 said:
Always nice to win trophies and series, but I'm unsure how much this would have benefitted the girls. Would have liked to have seen some more bold decisions by Joe in terms of who was starting and playing, and getting full minutes. Also could have been nice to try 1 or 2 different tactics or plans.
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I would have thought that neither Kenya (#128) nor Malawi (#153) would be a difficult opponent so giving newer players in the squad more time on the pitch was the reason for choosing to play these teams.
I hope it wasn’t to allow older players to rack up milestone appearances and/or goals.
 
libelous said:
I would have thought that neither Kenya (#128) nor Malawi (#153) would be a difficult opponent so giving newer players in the squad more time on the pitch was the reason for choosing to play these teams.
I hope it wasn’t to allow older players to rack up milestone appearances and/or goals.
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What I find too is one of the few rotated inclusions (who were essentially used as tokens to think we’d shut up) was Izzy Gómez. She’s a good player and 100% deserved her spot and more playing time but pundit Teo Pellizzeri ironically called for her to be capped days before the squad was released. Either the pundits know the squads in advance (they also clearly know transfers hence him also mentioning Hana Lowry and Tori Tumeth leaving Sydney FC; the former joined Vålerenga yesterday and I’ve been told by a third party that the latter is leaving to an unknown destination too) and/or they’re influencing the selections. I hope the DubZone pundits bring up Daniela Galić and Annalise Rasmussen in that case so we’re not sleeping on young dual international talents.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
What I find too is one of the few rotated inclusions (who were essentially used as tokens to think we’d shut up) was Izzy Gómez. She’s a good player and 100% deserved her spot and more playing time but pundit Teo Pellizzeri ironically called for her to be capped days before the squad was released. Either the pundits know the squads in advance (they also clearly know transfers hence him also mentioning Hana Lowry and Tori Tumeth leaving Sydney FC; the former joined Vålerenga yesterday and I’ve been told by a third party that the latter is leaving to an unknown destination too) and/or they’re influencing the selections. I hope the DubZone pundits bring up Daniela Galić and Annalise Rasmussen in that case so we’re not sleeping on young dual international talents.
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I don’t think the media would have a direct influence on selections but hopefully they can be a ‘weather vane’ for conveying fans concerns to the football hierarchy.
 
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