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The XIs are in.
For Australia, Caitlin Foord and Hayley Raso are back after injury scares and Aivi Luik also makes a return. Teagan Micah is again given the nod in goal over Lydia Williams.
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Here is how @TheMatildas line up against @TeamGB in the #Tokyo2020 Quarter Finals!
Kick off in 60 minutes.
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Knockout results of tournaments past have a tendency to resurface in every subsequent event. Every World Cup or Olympics we media types trot out statistics about how a national team fell short or how deep they progressed into the sudden-death rounds. How much energy the actual players actually devote to such memories is, I suppose, individual. But for tradition’s sake, let’s go there.
At the Olympics, neither of these sides have made it past the last eight. Team GB, in their only other Olympics appearance, were knocked out of their home Games by Canada in the quarter-finals. Australia reached the quarters at Athens 2004 and Rio 2016, the latter being a controversial penalty-shootout loss to host nation Brazil. And thus! One will make history here and the other will not.
