Of further concern for Montemurro will be the fitness of Steph Catley, who wore a cannoning shot to the head after just six minutes.<\/p>\n
The left back was initially cleared to play on before going off for Courtney Nevin after South Korea\u2019s 13th minute opener.<\/p>\n
Centre-back Wini Heatley was caught upfield and the Koreans played in behind her, with Mun Eun-Ju tucking a Jeon Yugyeong cross past Mackenzie Arnold.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Australia looked to have found some fluency after Montemurro switched Mary Fowler to the left flank and Caitlin Foord to the right midway through the first half.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The move opened up the Matildas\u2019 attack and both Fowler and Foord were the providers for their side’s first two goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fowler\u2019s cross across the six-yard box helped set up Kennedy, who bundled the ball over the line in the 32nd minute to pull Australia level.<\/p>\n
Foord blew a couple of handy chances before she set up Kerr in the sixth minute of first-half stoppage time to give the home side a 2-1 lead at the break.<\/p>\n
But after doing all the hard work to take the lead, the Matildas couldn\u2019t hold on to it.<\/p>\n
Kim Shin-Ji buried a 53rd minute penalty after Nevin\u2019s hand blocked a Kang Chae-Rim shot.<\/p>\n
Nevin was crestfallen and appeared gun-shy afterwards which allowed South Korea to push ahead when Kang was given space by the leftback to fizz a 57th minute shot past Arnold.<\/p>\n
Kennedy added a second – her fourth goal of the tournament – in the dying stages but Australia’s response in search of a winner came all too late.<\/p>\n
Together, CommBank and the AFC are uniting fans across Australia and the region for the AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup Australia 2026TM. For more information visit\u00a0commbank.com.au\/football<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0womensasiancup2026.com.au\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of further concern for Montemurro will be the fitness of Steph Catley, who wore a cannoning shot to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4764,64,63,139524,5214,596,26186,44],"class_list":["post-527836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-aap","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cba-story","tag-community","tag-football","tag-insights","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}