Steph Catley and Caitlin Foord spent part of Wednesday night working out how to pick apart Japan. It was an informal plan, nutted out while they sat in a treatment room watching the Matildas’ Asian Cup final opponents dismantle South Korea 4-1 in their semi-final.
“Naturally, you look at different ways that you can exploit a team,” Catley said in Sydney on Thursday. “They’re very, very good, and you think about how you can sort of alleviate that. They look a complete team at the moment … they’ve had a great tournament and seemingly cruised through most of the time.
Steph Catley was calm about Australia’s prospects against Japan on Saturday. Janie Barrett “But I sat there with Caitlin Foord – we were both in treatment, and we were sort of just discussing ways that we thought would be best to set up and where we can take advantage of certain areas. At the end of the day, that’s up to the coaching staff, and we’ll see what game plan they come up with. Then it’s our job to execute it as best we can.”
Both Catley and her Arsenal teammate Foord know many of Japan’s players well from rival Women’s Super League clubs, and know “they’re just full of talent, th
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