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Rianna Jarrett: Higher line could make 'huge difference' for Ireland in possession

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Vera Pauw is unlikely to make significant changes to her Republic of Ireland side for Wednesday's FIFA Women's World Cup clash against Canada but 16-time Girls in Green cap Rianna Jarrett is hopeful that the team will play a slightly higher line.Ireland lost 1-0 to co-hosts Australia in last Thursday's opening game in Sydney but came out of that fixture with plenty of credit, although the need to kickstart the campaign with at least a point means more attacking impetus may have to be found in Perth during the second game.Wexford Youths striker Jarrett, who featured early in Pauw's Irish reign, is in the western Australian city as a fan following the team on their adventure Down Under and joined the RTÉ Women's World Cup Podcast to give her take on expectations for the Canada match."I don't think there will be too many changes from what we've seen against Australia on Thursday.

I think there might be one or two, and you are probably thinking in those two wider positions with Marissa Sheva and Sinead Farrelly where you could potentially see changes," she said."But you could also they might try and get Katie McCabe a little bit higher and I think it's just important that we do have that support to Kyra Carusa." We need your consent to load this YouTube content We use YouTube to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity.

Please review their details and accept them to load the content. Manage Preferences Jarrett pointed to the first half of the France friendly in Tallaght at the start of July as an example of how playing slightly higher up the pitch as a collective allowed the likes of Farrelly to have more of an impact and subsequent connection to striker Carusa."In the

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