Caretaker Matildas coach Tom Sermanni is keen to see the side return to winning ways in Europe. Video by Football Australia via AAP
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00:00There's two things that I'm looking towards in this camp. One is for the team to put in a really good, solid, positive performance to bring back that confidence in the team.
00:11But at the same time, it's really important to get results. So if someone gave me a choice right now to say, would you want a good performance or do you want a result?
00:21Right at this moment in time, I would say we want a result and this team is fairly desperate to get back on a winning track again.
00:28I have spoken to Sam and the key thing that I think everyone stressed, the Chelsea staff, the Chelsea medical people and our own people, is that it's really important for Sam to take as long as it takes to make sure she comes back fully without cutting any corners.
00:44And that's the process that she's taking. At the moment, she's in the midst of that and really having some important parts of her treatment.
00:53So at this stage, she won't be joining us on this tour.
00:57The team was a bit beaten up after the outcome of the Olympics. There's no point in denying that.
01:04And the confidence, I think, within the group and within the squad was a bit low because obviously this team has got high expectations.