Mia Freedman

Sorry, I shouldn't have asked that question.

I'm a terrible person.

No, you're not.

You've been poorly and you've got a small child.

Don't worry about it.

Anyway, it was a very exciting game.

Japan scored in the first half, a really amazing goal.

And then in the second half, it was just full on Matildas attacking and they did everything right.

They were playing so hard and everybody was amazing, but they just couldn't get it in the net, which is the way that football goes sometimes.

But I really wanted to shout out the amazing Matildas because the pressure on those women to carry not only like, you know, obviously they're professional sports people and they want to win, but female sports people in those roles have all this added pressure.

You're the inspiration for a nation.

You're the inspiration for the next generation.

All the schoolgirls of the world look up to you and stuff.

And watching them all react in the next 24 hours to the fact that they...

tried their absolute hardest but didn't make it was actually really inspiring it was they all took it very hard and they all sort of said you know we gave it everything all those things but you know if you've got to be a role model and we do put a lot of pressure on female sports people to be role models role modeling trying really really hard and being really really good at what you do but still not always getting what you want is actually really brilliant and important

Yeah, that's amazing.

Thank you, Matildas, for being incredible.

I know they're all on their planes home to go back and play in England and Europe and all over the place, and I hope they're listening to Out Loud on their way back.

You can hear us just sending loads of love.

You're amazing.