The 2019 Asian Rugby Sevens Series China tournament began its second matchday.
In the men's group, China won 36-0 against the last opponent in the group stage, the United Arab Emirates, ranking second in Group B with a record of 2 wins and 1 loss, and competing with Japan, which ranked first in Group A, for a final spot. The strongest Japanese men's team in Asia won all the group stages, scoring a total of 116 points and not losing a single point. In this season's competition in South Korea, the Japanese team has lost points in the group stage, and it can be said that the Japanese team has shown a more terrifying performance in the offensive and defensive ends of this game. The Chinese team scored a total of 53 points in the South Korea race, losing 52 points, and only 1 point net win. But sitting at home today, the Chinese team scored a total of 64 points in the group stage, losing 34 points, and the performance has improved significantly. Especially today, when facing the Uae, he scored 36-0 zero points to stabilize his second place in the group.
Since 2012, the Chinese and Japanese men's teams have played 12 times in the Asian Rugby Sevens Series, and the Chinese team has only defeated Japan once in the group stage of Hong Kong, China in 2016, and the remaining 11 games have all ended in failure.
In the semi-finals, the Chinese team dared to fight at the beginning, and the two sides played glue, until the 3rd minute and 30 seconds to open the deadlock, and the Japanese team took the lead. In the 5th minute, Gao Bing broke through the defensive touchdown successfully, and after Ma Chong scored with an additional shot, the Chinese team ended the first half of the competition 7-7. Yi Bian fought again, and in the 8th minute, Yin Zhiwen's beautiful continuous change of direction tore open the defensive gap to score, and the Chinese team led 14-7. After that, the Chinese team united in their will, and launched a more ferocious attack while defending without mistakes, and finally maintained the score to the end, and the Chinese men's team defeated the Japanese team again after three years! At the same time, the Chinese men's team has entered the series final for the first time in four years!
The final opponent of the Chinese men's team was Hong Kong, China, and this match is also seen as a second stage in the final of the 2013 Liaoning National Games. At that time, the Shandong players in the squad currently had only One Ma Chong, and the Hong Kong team only had Yao Jincheng, a Chinese veteran, and the Shandong team finally controversially killed the Hong Kong team 14-12, who has since stopped appearing in major domestic competitions. After six years of snapping, the two sides finally met again in the final. In the end, the more powerful Hong Kong team laughed to the end, winning the championship 14-7. But at the last minute, the home team players deliberately rammed into the opponent when the opponent kicked the ball out of bounds to end the game, causing the two sides to twist and end the game. The Chinese men's team tied their best result in the Yaqu series. It must be pointed out that the Shandong team, which represented the Chinese team, has not met opponents in the domestic battlefield since winning the National Games championship in 2013, and has always been known for its strict discipline and tenacious style. I believe that after the game, we will summarize accordingly and objectively look at the deep-seated reasons that led to the behavior that violated the spiritual value of rugby.
In the women's group, the Chinese women's team won Sri Lanka 46-0 in the last group game in the morning, ranking first in the group with a total victory of three games. The other group's qualifying situation is extremely complicated: the traditional strong team Kazakhstan unexpectedly lost to the dark horse Thai team, and the japanese team with stronger paper strength lost to Kazakhstan, forming a "Japan-Kazakhstan-Thai serial killing" situation, after three rounds of group matches, the three teams accumulated 7 points, and finally by relying on the rules of calculating the net win points, it was determined that Japan and Kazakhstan joined hands to advance to the semifinals, and the Thai women's team was only one step away from creating the best team history.
The opponent of the Chinese women's team in the semi-finals is the same as that of South Korea, still Kazakhstan. In the end, after Wang Wanyu and Yu Liping joined forces to contribute 3 touchdowns, as well as additional shots from Chen Keyi and Gu Yaoyao, the Chinese women's team won 21-10 against the opponent, and for the first time in history, the Chinese men's and women's teams joined hands to advance to the final.
In the final, facing the most familiar opponent Japan, the Chinese women's team sitting at home took the lead, and liu yang and Wang Wanyu's touchdown and Chen Keyi's additional shots gave the Chinese team a 12-0 lead in the first half. The Japanese team seized a chance that was not a chance in the opening to touch the line and chase the score to 7-12. Then the Chinese team took advantage of the opponent's yellowing, one less person to fight the opportunity to play two and one success on the side, and Su Qi also used color to expand the score to 17-7. But in the last 1 minute and 30 seconds, the Chinese girls who are too eager to win are burdened with the ideological burden of wanting to win and afraid of losing. From the technical error at the time of kick-off, directly rolling out of the dead ball line, giving the opponent a free kick in the midfield, being played twice by the opponent, the lead was instantly destroyed, and the two sides entered the Golden Ball victory link with a score of 17-17. In the end, the Japanese team seized the gap of the Chinese team's defense by Thei Sui Nohana, which was also her 11th touchdown of the season. The Chinese team defeated the Japanese team at home and won the second place in the competition.
Three days later, it was the second anniversary of the death of Professor Cao Xihuan, the founder of Chinese rugby. Under his leadership, rugby blossomed everywhere in China. In this Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, the Yaqu series returned to the Chinese mainland after four years, the Chinese men's team defeated Japan again, and the Chinese men's and women's teams joined hands to advance to the final, we believe that Cao Laodu will watch this greenery in the sky and witness the Chinese rugby step by step to glory.
Image from the network and the front of the ball