The Matildas have overcome Mexico in Sydney, where Caitlin Foord iced a frenzied end-to-end match with a goal to mark her 150th cap.<\/p>\n
Tuesday night\u2019s 3-1 win was a spectacle of stark contrast to Saturday\u2019s first friendly against the world No.28 nation, leaving that incoherent stoppage-time 1-0 loss behind in Newcastle and treating the 18,441 at Commbank Stadium to a fluid performance only let down by several defensive lapses.<\/p>\n
Alanna Kennedy continued her renaissance with her sixth international goal of 2026, and Sam Kerr forced a Mexico own goal, in a match featuring a combined total 34 shot attempts, 10 on target, eight corners and two yellow cards. And, importantly, a Matildas win as they prepare for next year\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe worked on a couple of things after the game on Saturday and a lot of those things came to life,\u201d Montemurro said after the match. \u201cWe got what we wanted out of these games in terms of growth now leading into the World Cup. So for me, it was a successful little tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Matildas have overcome Mexico in Sydney, where Caitlin Foord iced a frenzied end-to-end match with a goal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-725345","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\/725345","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=725345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}