While the World Cup is officially just 100 days away, the Football Ferns aren't looking past Wednesday's (NZ time) friendly match against Nigeria.
New Zealand are riding a wave of confidence, after an impressive draw with Iceland, boosted by their first goal in six games.
Their next opponents sit 17 places below them in the world rankings at 42nd and provide them with an opportunity to break another drought.
The NZ women haven't won a game in their previous nine matches, with their last coming against Philippines last September.
You would excuse coach Jitka Klimková for thinking ahead to the New Zealand and Australia-hosted World Cup, beginning in July, but her sights on firmly on Nigeria.
"We will be focusing on the game that is always in front of us and the game in front of us is Nigeria," she said. "It's really good for us, our confidence, to know the game against Iceland was a very solid performance from our side and with a positive outcome.
"This is our focus, we will be playing tomorrow. We still have a training to go, so day-by-day, game-by-game.
"We still have May and June, when we will be training together. It's two months with the team and a lot of players will be in the camp in Auckland.
"That's something we will be just focusing [on], day-by-day. Every day is important for us and every day is preparation for our first game on July 20."
Nigeria are expected to pose a sterner challenge than their ranking suggests, with the 11-time African champions no strangers to winning.
Unlike the Football Ferns, they have triumphed in their last two matches, with Barcelona star striker Asisat Oshoala leading the line.
"It's different opposition than Iceland," Klimková said. "We haven't played an African team yet, so it's good for us to have a diversity of opposition.
"When we will be at the World Cup, we will be more prepared for any opposition that is in front of us.
"We know that they are very athletic, they are very physical, they are very unpredictable, but we will be focusing on us. We will be focusing on our performance, we will be focusing on our fundamentals.
"I believe we will be performing [in a] similar way to how we performed against Iceland, that [the] positive outcome will come."
