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Australia have been hit by more injuries as the co-hosts look to close in on a place in the last 16.

The Matildas are already without the injured Sam Kerr and now fellow forward Mary Fowler - who replaced the Chelsea star in their opening game - is also unavailable after suffering a head knock during training.

It leaves Arsenal's Caitlin Foord as their only recognised striker. Defender Aivi Luik is also ruled out after hurting her head during training.

"Everything was good, we were just unlucky unfortunately, two head knocks. We didn't do anything different than normal," Australia coach Tony Gustavsson said.

"The players kept going. They are on a mission and just focused on what they can control, so credit to them in [Tuesday's] training on how they responded to it."

Australia make just one change to their starting XI from their opening 1-0 win against the Republic of Ireland.

Forward Mary Fowler, who filled in for the injured Sam Kerr in the last match, suffered a concussion in training and is replaced in the starting line-up by Emily van Egmond.

Aivi Luik also suffered a head injury in training, and is named on the bench alongside Kerr and Fowler, but Australia have confirmed the trio will not play.

Australia XI: Arnold, Catley, Kennedy, Hunt, Carpenter, Van Egmond, Gorry, Cooney-Cross, Vine, Foord, Raso

Subs: Williams, Micah, Nevin, Luik, Polkinghorne, Wheeler, Chidiac, Fowler, Yallop, Simon, Kerr, Grant.

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Meanwhile, Nigeria have made three changes from the side that drew 0-0 with Canada and the big news is that Barcelona forward Asisat Oshoala is not included.

Nigeria XI: Nnadozie, Plumptre, Ohale, Demehin, Alozie, Payne, Ucheibe, Ayinde, Onumonu, Kanu, Ajibade.

Subs: Oluehi, Balogun, Ogbonna, Ebi, Oshoala, Oparanozie, Monday, Ordega, Echegini, Imuran, Okoronkwo.

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Without the injured Sam Kerrr, this is going to be a tough game for Australia.

Nigeria showed against Canada that they are hard to beat, and I wouldn't be surprised if they got another point here too - which would leave the Matildas with more work to do to get out of their group.

Prediction:1-1

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If you need a reminder of how Australia and Nigeria performed in their last games, here you go.

Hopefully we'll see more goals from open play today.

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Good morning and thanks for joining our live text commentary of Australia v Nigeria.

Victory today for the co-hosts would seal their place in the knockout stages after an opening 1-0 win against the Republic of Ireland thanks to Steph Catley's penalty.

A red card, clean sheet and saved penalty - Nigeria's first game was a mixed bag. The goalless draw with Canada leaves the Super Falcons' World Cup future uncertain, but a win today would certainly do no harm to their chances of reaching the last 16.

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