Minute-by-minute report: The Matildas’ tournament comes to an end as they face world No 3 Sweden for third place in Brisbane. Join Jonathan Howcroft for updates
Hello everybody and welcome to live coverage of Sweden v Australia from Lang Park in Brisbane. Kick-off in this Women’s World Cup third-place play-off is 6pm AEST/9am BST.For the next few hours we can put the stress and anxiety of tomorrow aside and reflect on a magical month that has proved transformative here in Australia and continued the upward trajectory of women’s football globally.
Let’s celebrate Thembi Kgatlana’s injury-time winner for South Africa, and Linda Caicedo’s brilliance for Colombia. Let’s reflect on the record attendances and viewing figures, and the refreshing new voices in the media. Let’s consider the end of an era for the USWNT and the start of hopefully a new generation in international women’s football with the gap between the best and the rest narrower and more geographically diverse than ever before.
Together we can manipulate the peak-end rule to our advantage and sign off from this month on a high.
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