Mumbai: Captain Sam Kerr hit five goals for the first hat-trick tournament in Mauling 18-0 in Indonesia’s low Australia in the opening match of their Asian Cup here on Friday.
The Star Chelsea striker, who was named the runner-up of FIFA’s best player award recently, started a single goal behind the Cahill team on the list of Australian (male or female) scorers and ended the four ahead for a total of 54 in the 105th match.
Group B match between the highest ranking team and the lowest in the Mumbai football arena turned out to be one side that truly moves with the 2010 champions who scored against the Indonesian side who made their first appearance since 1989.
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The third in this year’s prestigious Women’s Ballon D ‘ Or award, is one of the eight Matildas to get their names on the score sheet in a victory, Australia’s largest in the AFC Asian Cup.
Indonesia put on the appearance of a brave defense in the early minutes, but their resistance was broken when the Emily Van Egmond pass found Kerr, who drove home to 50th 50th.
The aim was to flatten Cahill’s record, and Kerr should solve it just two minutes later, with other Egmond vans giving Captain Australia as a scene that could barely be purified in the goal.
Kerr reverses the provider, teeing up the Caitlin Foord for the third Australian in the 14th minute, before Mary Fowler entered the action with finishes for three minutes later, and Matildas rose 5-0 when Raso bravely returned home in the 24th minute.
With the 94th Indonesian rating helpless to fight the speed and movement of Australia, Kerr completed his hat-trick from the penalty spot shortly before the 6 sensational yard strike from the carpenter led further.
Eight quickly became nine when Kerr poke his fourth out of a few feet out, with Van Egmond once again the provider, before Van Egmond himself made him nine in the first round with a penalty kick beating afterwards.
Tony Gustavsson’s head coach made five changes to his 11th rank team at the interval, but little changed in the field, with carpenters made a double number with a speculative long range effort before Kerr took the individual tally, then set the productive van Egmond for the soft header for made him 12-0.
Van Egmond finished a hat-trick and made him 13-0 right before the hour sign before Kerr missed a penalty kick.
Substitute Kyah Simon added the calculation before he succeeded in 16-0 in the 71st minute.
It was a rain game with goals, but Aivi Luik scored the best of them when he controlled 17th in Australia 17th in the 78th minute, before Raso gave the last touch to the biggest victory of the competition in more than 20 years.