Sam Kerr has scored one goal and created another as her exceptional Matildas earned a sensational 2-0 victory over European champions England in London.
Sam Kerr celebrates after scoring the team's first goal with teammates during the Women's International Friendly match between England and Australia at Gtech Community Stadium in Brentford, England.Sam Kerr's brilliance has fired her Matildas to a memorable and thoroughly merited 2-0 triumph over high-flying England in a huge fillip to their World Cup dreams.
It was an extraordinary result, carved out against all the odds by an injury-hit team on a miserable, rain-drenched night in London which perfectly demonstrated coach Tony Gustavsson's belief that the Matildas need fear no-one at their home World Cup in July.From the outset, Kerr's team, faced by an overwhelmingly partisan full house of 14,500, were as aggressive, in-your-face and committed as Gustavsson had promised they would be.
Kerr was magnificent, leading from the front and ending worries over her fitness to spearhead their challenge. With the rain driving down, the Matildas started, as Gustavsson suggested they would, without looking remotely overawed. But out of nowhere, Kerr struck in typically predatory fashion. She had barely had a sniff for the first 32 minutes but when Clare Hunt hoofed a long ball forward, she was on to her opposing captain Williamson like a hawk, shadowing her and anticipating that she'd try to nod the ball back to her keeper Mary Earps.
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