Australia vs China Women\u2019s Asian Cup semi-final live<\/a><\/p>\nChina has gone 4-0 at this tournament scoring nine goals and conceding just one, though they needed extra time to get past Chinese Taipei in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have the most respect for Ante as a person and as a student of the game,\u201d Montemurro said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is going to be a tactical battle that I need to be prepared for off the pitch, I need to make those decisions because I know he is going to throw some things at us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Van Egmond on the brink of CRAZY record | 00:59<\/p>\n
The Matildas are trying to return to the final for the first time since 2018, where either Japan or South Korea awaits. They play their semi-final on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Australia has only won the tournament once, in 2010, defeating North Korea in the final on penalties.<\/p>\n
They have also lost three finals, to China (2006 on penalties) and to Japan (2014 and 2018).<\/p>\n
Follow Australia vs China in the Asian Cup semi-final live from 9pm AEDT below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Matildas are one win away from a major tournament final on home soil, but must get past…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-545765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545765","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=545765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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