- Mark Bosnich says Matildas players look out of place
- Suggests that the team try to get more ball to Mary Fowler
- Matildas play Zambia on Monday morning
Australian football legend Mark Bosnich believes the Matildas have a major problem to solve after their Olympic gold medal campaign was all but destroyed by a 3-0 defeat to Germany on Friday morning.
The Aussies were completely outclassed by the football team on a sultry, dispiriting evening in the south of France.
The World Cup semi-finalists, chasing their first ever Olympic medal, were unable to get going against the successful former champions in Marseille on Thursday, on the eve of the opening ceremony in Paris, 750 kilometres away.
According to Bosnich, the Matildas stars seemed out of place in the run-up to the match.
“Well, this was a big problem for me,” he said on Stan Sport’s Olympics Daily program.
‘Ideally you want to have people in positions where they know they don’t even have to lift their head if they don’t want to, but that someone will be there.
‘And this happened over and over again.’
Bosnich explained that there were too many players around the ball.
Mark Bosnich says the Matildas have a big problem to solve before their next match
Bosnich believes Mary Fowler is the team’s best player and should get more quality on the ball
“When people are running for the ball, you want to stay out of the way. Maybe you give them an option and that’s it,” he said.
“But that’s something they have to solve, so they’re very, very fast. And I’m not talking about a whole change that’s too late to implement.
The Matildas now play Zambia. It is a must-win game. Bosnich says the team needs to build the team around Mary Fowler.
“The idea is to make the team realize who their best player is right now,” Bosnich said.
I think it’s Mary Fowler, and [they need to] finding a way to get her the ball as early as possible and in the best possible position so she has time and space to do her thing… that’s the problem
‘If they can solve that problem, they can not only beat Zambia, but they can also progress to the knockout stages and go far.’
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