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Sam Kerr has the ball in the net and a protest on her lips. She’s buried it before anybody on the field can take a breath, but not before the referee has blown her whistle. An interference off the ball, it was adjudged, a mere half-second after Steph Catley took the free kick that her captain caught on the volley. It is two minutes before half-time and Australia do not want want to break now.

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