The New Zealand women's football team are targeting two tests against Australia as a chance to add another dimension to their medal chances at the Olympics. Photo / Getty Images.
The New Zealand women's football team are targeting two tests against Australia as a chance to add another dimension to their medal chances at the Olympics.
The Football Ferns take on the 10th ranked Matildas - a team they haven't beaten in 18 years - twice in four days, beginning
in Wollongong on Sunday.
But ending a 12-match losing streak against China last week with consecutive victories in Auckland has given the London-bound Ferns a spring in their step heading into a predictably heated transtasman derby series.
Swedish-based professionals Ali Riley and Kirsty Yallop returned to Europe for club duty, meaning New Zealand coach Tony Readings will make at least two changes to his starting line-up, but he said he intended to look deeper into his squad during this series regardless.
"It'll take a whole squad to win a medal in London," Readings said. "There's six games in 16 days and it's a question of when, not if, players will be called on. Everyone will need to be ready.
