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26 of the 2020-21 W-League season’s best performers assembled in Sydney on Tuesday for the first day of a Women’s Talent Identification Camp organised by Football Australia to provide a potential pathway to the Matildas for domestically based talent.
Unable to be selected for the national team’s recent training camp in the Netherlands and friendlies against Germany and the Dutch, the four-day bivouac looms as one of the best, and last, opportunities for domestically-based players to break into Australia s 18-player squad for the coming Olympic Games.
Matildas boss Tony Gustavsson not able to attend in person, assistant coach Andreatta has taken charge of proceedings - the former Brisbane Roar boss also having overseen the first Talent ID camp staged back in November - and has been encouraged by the early signs on display.
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The Roar claimed an impressive 4-1 win at Leichhardt Oval on Sunday to move within two points of the table-topping Sky Blues with their fourth victory in a row.
The defeat ends Sydney s 100 per cent record and came after having conceded just one goal in their previous seven matches.
Second-placed Brisbane are now the only unbeaten team in the league having started their season with four consecutive draws.
The Roar took an early lead in eighth minute when Matildas winger Emily Gielnik found space down the left and played a pinpoint cross to Yallop, who nodded home at the back post.
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Mariel Hecher was the hero for the Roar, who dropped from a 2-0 lead to 2-2 before the Brazilian let rip with a stunning strike off the post to reclaim the advantage in the 75th minute.
As a result, City slipped to seventh in the league with just four points from six games and a goal difference of -8. We re gonna try (to make finals). We re gonna try everything, we re gonna try to win every game like we did so far, City coach Rado Vidosic said. But it s getting harder and harder with each game.
Brisbane took the lead in the 23rd minute when Clare Polkinghorne rose highest to head home Jamilla Rankin s corner and doubled their advantage via Emily Gielnik from the spot eight minutes later after City s Samantha Johnson was penalised for a handball.