There are two ways to conceptualise Australia’s 11-goal thriller against Zambia on Sunday, complete with a 90th minute winner which kept the Matildas’ Paris Olympics hopes alive.
Once you look past the superlatives – sublime, ridiculous, unworldly – and the alliteration (“nonsense in Nice”, as one wag put it, five years on from that nightmare in Nice), it boils down to two contrasting world views on the state of the Matildas and their current predicament.
