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The Matildas have used closed-doors matches this week in the United States to super-charge Olympics preparations, trying new formations and game plans.
Coach Tony Gustavsson has enjoyed the benefit of a long lead-in to a friendly match with Mexico on Wednesday (AEST), giving his squad new roles and instructions.
It's secret squirrel stuff, and the first glimpse will come in San Antonio against the current world No.31.
'It was a massive opportunity for us to try different ways, different players, different tactics, different game management stuff in a closed door environment to not reveal too much,' Gustavsson said of the seven-day camp.
'Trying things we feel the need to improve come Olympics.
Tony Gustavsson has made a telling revelation about Sam Kerr
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'Tomorrow will be a time - I don't like the word experiments - but it will be a day when we're going to try a lot of things.'
Part of Gustavsson's experimentation comes due to player unavailability.
Emily Gielnik suffered a calf injury in camp, while Aivi Luik (hamstring), Katrina Gorry (ankle), Clare Hunt (foot), Courtney Nevin and Chloe Logarzo (both hip) were unable to travel due to recent issues.
Gustavsson said he was hopeful key names like Hunt, Luik, 'playing maybe the best football of her career', and Gorry, 'our engine', would be available for the Olympics, which begin in July.
And then there's Sam Kerr, missing up to a year after the dreaded rupture of an anterior cruciate ligament, and under the cloud of a racially aggravated offence in the UK for allegedly calling a police
