Next month, in addition to the Chinese men's football team continuing to participate in the top 12 competitions, the Chinese women's football team also ushered in a new Asian Cup event, fully impacting the first championship in 15 years and defending its supremacy in the event. The Chinese women's football team drew the upper lottery, the group is not difficult to qualify, the main difficulty is to compete for the top place in the group, at present, the host Indian women's football team is the most important competitor of the Chinese women's football team.
Previously, the Chinese women's football team was in the same group as the hosts India women's football team, Chinese Taipei women's football team, and Iranian women's football team, successfully avoiding the two major championship favorites of the Australian women's football team and the Japanese women's football team, which was more conducive to the first qualifying of the Chinese women's football team.
The Indian women's football team relies on the status of the host to become a seeded team, ranking only 55th in the world, and the Chinese women's football team ranks 19th, and the gap between the strength of the two teams is not small.
The Chinese women's football team is the strongest team in this group, of course, the host India women's football team does not want to meet the two major champions of the Australian women's football team and the Japanese women's football team early in the knockout round. In order to play well in the group stage, the Indian women's football team went overseas to train last month, and finally lost consecutive goals, losing 1-6 to the Brazilian women's football team, 0-3 to the Chile women's football team, 1-2 to the Venezuelan women's football team, and 3 consecutive defeats and 11 goals.
The new Women's Asian Cup expanded from 8 teams to 12 teams, and the Indian women's football team may not be able to enter the final round if it is not the host team, and all the past 5 tournaments have been absent. In addition, according to statistics, the Chinese women's football team and the Indian women's football team only have two matches, and the Chinese women's football team has maintained a total victory, which is 16-0 at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok and 12-0 in the 2003 Women's Asian Cup, scoring 28 goals and not conceding 1 goal.
With the upper hand and the opponent's poor form, the Chinese women's football team competes for the first place in the group to usher in good news. At present, the Chinese women's football team has been training for more than half a month, and the coach Shui Qingxia has recruited the former main players of the national team, such as Zhao Lina, Li Ying, Tang Jiali, etc., plus the rising new star Shen Mengyu, the strength of the Chinese women's football team has been improved.
Of course, the star of the Chinese women's football team is still Wang Shuang, who will be the team's offensive thigh. Wang Shuang has remained stable this season, performing well in both the Olympic Games and the Women's Super League, with the opportunity to impact his first Asian Cup Golden Boot.
The Chinese women's football team has won 8 Asian Cup titles, once achieved 7 consecutive championships, ranking first in history, the last time it won the championship was in 2006, and since then it has not won the championship for 4 consecutive times. Now, with the overall strength of the Japanese women's football team and the Australian women's football team declining, the Chinese women's football team has a great opportunity to regain the Asian Cup.