{"id":554537,"date":"2026-03-21T08:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554537\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T08:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:11:13","slug":"australia-matildas-vs-japan-score-updates-news-videos-highlights-sam-kerr-fitness-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554537\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Matildas vs Japan score, updates, news, videos, highlights, Sam Kerr fitness, injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Matildas face Japan in the Asian Cup final on Saturday night, beating China in the semi-final on their way as they eye silverware on home soil.<\/p>\n<p>Star striker Sam Kerr had an injury scare, but is expected to take the field as she did in their last outing where the Chelsea gun scored a crucial winner.<\/p>\n<p>It has been 16 years since the Matildas won a Women\u2019s Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest football news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportmail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/newsletter-sign-up?utm_source=FootballArticle&amp;utm_medium=TextLink&amp;utm_campaign=signup\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the action below in our live blog, if you can\u2019t see it <a href=\"https:\/\/go.arena.im\/live\/fox-sports-australia\/undefined?v=2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">click here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Matildas face Japan in the Asian Cup final on Saturday night, beating China in the semi-final on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-554537","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\/554537","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=554537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}