On the evening of January 15, the Chinese women's football team departed from Shanghai and flew to Mumbai to prepare for the Asian Cup in India from January 20 to February 6, and will compete for the qualifying places for the 2023 Women's World Cup. Because this Women's World Cup is jointly organized by Australia/New Zealand, and the tournament is expanded to 32 teams for the first time, the pressure on the Chinese team to qualify is not large, as long as it gets the top 5, it can directly qualify. The key is whether the new women's football team, led by the sonorous rose of the year and the old women's football team member Shui Qingxia, can kick out a new style and new atmosphere, sweeping away the haze of last year's Olympic Games and the chicken feathers before and after. This year's Asian Cup has 12 teams participating, and the Chinese team drew a good draw in the group stage, and is in the same group as Chinese Taipei, India and Iran. Water coaching can dispatch troops, run into lineups, and train new people.
On January 11, the Chinese women's football team officially announced the 23-person participation list, in addition to Wang Shuang, Wang Shanshan and other core figures of the national team in recent years, a group of players who failed to vote for last year's Tokyo Olympic Games all returned, such as Tang Jiali, Yao Wei, Ma Jun, Lou Jiahui, and zhang Rui, Zhao Lina, who faded out of the national team after 2019. The previous captain Wu Haiyan and Shen Mengyu, who stayed in the Soviet Super Celtics, were selected for this list, so it also caused some controversy. In Yi Xiao's view, it is still necessary to trust the professionalism and fairness of the coaching team led by Shui Qingxia's guidance, and it is also necessary for everyone to rush in Japan. The following is to analyze this list in more detail for everyone.
The news in these days is basically from the player's club to report this list, Yi Xiao after comparison, first from the field position to analyze.
Goalkeeper position (3 people): No. 1 Zhu Yu (Wuhan), No. 12 Xu Huan (Jiangsu), No. 22 Zhao Lina (Shanghai). The goalkeeper position includes the main goalkeepers in the top three of the 2021 Women's Super League. The 2 young goalkeepers represent the national adult team are not many games, the 24-year-old Zhu Yu wears the No. 1 shirt symbolizing the main force, and at the National Games led by Shui Qingxia, she replaced Peng Shimeng as the main force of the Olympic joint team; the 22-year-old Xu Huan was the main goalkeeper of the 2018 U20 Women's World Cup, and this year he performed well in the Women's Super League, helping the "All China Class" Jiangsu women's football team, whose strength has dropped sharply, to play in the final; 30-year-old Zhao Lina was the main goalkeeper of the Chinese team at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. She is also the tallest of the three, with a height of 188, everyone is very familiar with her, and her ability and appearance are outstanding. Therefore, this Asian Cup, from the perspective of focusing on the future, it is likely that Zhu Yu will serve as the main goalkeeper, but it is not surprising if Zhao Lina is used. In addition, if the Chinese team locks up the first qualifying of the group in advance, the last round of the group stage will definitely carry out a large number of rotations, and the substitute goalkeeper will also get the opportunity to play.
Defenders (5): Li Jiayue (Shanghai), Wang Xiaoxue (Jiangsu), Li Mengwen (Jiangsu), Gao Chen (Changchun), Lou Jiahui (Henan). It is a bit surprising that there are only 5 full-time defenders in the 23-man list, of which only 32-year-old domineering "jia brother" Li Jiayue and Jiangsu team Wang Xiaoxue, who participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games, played as a center-back, so these two people are likely to partner with central defenders. The other three are all right-backs, with 26-year-old Li Mengwen being an all-rounder who can play left and right, and she also mentioned the Olympic Union left-back at the National Games, so it is highly likely that she will still play the left gate. The position of right-back is competed by Gao Chen and Lou Jiahui, 30-year-old Lou Jiahui is very familiar to everyone, from the earliest striker debut to now playing right-back, olympic qualifiers when she is in and out, full of rush, and now in Henan women's football she is the head coach and team member, but also more mature. Another right-back, Gao Chen, is also over 29 years old, and in 2015 she was the main player of the national team during the Bruno period, but then gradually faded out, and this season she continued to play for the Changchun team, which was not outstanding, and actually won the assist king. Several defenders in the previous 34-man roster have been defeated, such as Lu Yueyun, Zhai Qingwei, Wang Linlin, especially former captain Wu Haiyan and her main partner Lin Yuping in the 19th World Cup. Many fans are unclear, questioning why Wu Haiyan was not selected, in fact, she has not been good because of injuries, although she went out with the team in the Olympic Games, she still could not play. In this league, there are only sporadic appearances. In this way, the list of 5 defenders is certainly not enough, so it is not excluded that Yao Wei, Yao Lingwei and even striker Wang Shanshan will play the central defender in an emergency. There is also a situation where the water guide already has a brilliant plan for a big move, so let's wait and see.
Midfielder (7 players): Zhang Rui (Shandong), Yao Wei, Ma Jun, Liu Yanqiu (Wuhan), Yao Lingwei, Wu Chengshu (Jiangsu), Yang Lina, Xiao Yuyi (Shanghai). With the league championship of the past two years, Wuhan Chegujiang Big Club has the largest number of people. Among them, 32-year-old veteran Zhang Rui, Wuhan's midfield partner Yao Wei and Ma Jun, as well as Yao Lingwei of Jiangsu team and Yang Lina of Shanghai team can play at the back or center forward. The main 2 should rotate among the first three, and Zhang Rui, the absolute main force of the national team before 2019 and the midfield organizer, wore the No. 10 shirt this time, and it can be seen that the water guide still values her organizational offensive ability and experience. Ma Jun is also a central defender from a former Golden Boot winner, and the 24-year-old Yao Wei is the captain of the Wuhan team, the youngest and both offensive and defensive, and is a key candidate for the core of the future midfield. Several other players are full-back candidates, including Yang Lina, who can compete for the side position with the winger candidate if the women's football team plays in the 4231 or 442 formation, and the competition is also very fierce.
Front (7): Wang Shanshan (Tianjin), Li Ying (Shandong), Wang Yanwen (Beijing), Zhang Linyan (Guangdong), Tang Jiali (Tottenham Hotspur), Zhang Xin (Shanghai), Wang Shuang (Wuhan). The role of the arrow character should be one of the two between Wang Shanshan and Li Ying, and Wang Shuang will definitely remain the soul of the entire team. In addition, there are two points worth paying attention to. One is the return of Tang Jiali, her defeat is the biggest controversy in the Olympic lineup, the beautiful goal against Australia in the qualifiers, the goal line of the South Korean team to push the opponent's goal, but said that it was seriously injured and could not participate, and turned around and was signed by the Women's Football Team of Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League, which is incomprehensible. At Tottenham, she also contributed goals and assists, although the injury was repeated so that she had not yet established her main position. Therefore, the water coach called her into the selection this time, which is not only the ability that the national team needs her, but also to make up for her heartbreak. I believe that with her good physical fitness, comprehensive technical ability, and the shooting technique of opening the bow left and right, she will definitely be able to surprise everyone. The second is the selection of two young players in their early 20s, 22-year-old Wang Yanwen and 21-year-old "black sister" Zhang Linyan. These two people are actually teammates who participated in the 18-year U20 Women's World Cup with Shen Mengyu, Zhang Linyan is even more in the 16-year Weifang Cup Four Countries Women's Youth Invitational Tournament has emerged, fast speed, smart style is her characteristics, Wang Yanwen has scored in the Olympic Games, this time wearing the No. 9 shirt. Worth looking forward to. At least why Shen Mengyu, who everyone complained about, was not selected, indeed she joined the Celtics for half a season, performing well, at least 2 goals and 5 assists, but I think she has basically played the main force, and Su Chao is also a frequent game, Shui Qingxia coached as the head coach of the original Shanghai team, and she also knows the root of the matter without investigation, and the back position of the national team is also full of talents, so let her stay in the club to exercise more.
Overall, this Asian Cup 23-man list is very different from the lineup led by Jia Xiuquan to the Tokyo Olympic Games last year, with a total of 13 people missing the Olympic lineup, and Peng Shimeng and Li Qingtong, who made mistakes in the game, were not eligible for this list. In fact, not only that, after Shui Qingxia took office, the coaching management team also underwent a blood change. There have been tremendous changes up to the team leader, down to the press officer, the team doctor, and so on. In terms of assistant coaches, the three assistant coaches were replaced by Liu Lin, who led the defending Women's Super League champion in Wuhan and participated in the competition for the women's football coach, Zhang Jun in Jiangsu, and Cheng Liang, who played for Shanghai Shenhua and coached Sichuan Jiuniu. In addition, goalkeeper coach Cheng Xiaoyu is also from Jiangsu, he has been the goalkeeper coach of the women's national football team as early as 2003, and he has also cooperated with Shui Qingxia. The current coaching team is the team of the top three women's Super League in the past 2 years, Wuhan, Jiangsu and Shanghai, no wonder this 23-man list, these 3 teams each account for 5 people, can basically be regarded as justified. In this group of players, there are still more Mesozoic players and veterans, and it is estimated that the water coach wants to rely on their rich game experience to play a good start and let the Chinese women's football team that fell to the bottom of last year's Olympic Games regroup. From the position of the selected players, there are more offensive players, it is estimated that the water coach will play more aggressively and more unrestrained, especially the strength of our opponents in the group stage is not too strong, Chinese Taipei, India, Iran and us still have a significant gap. I think the top 4 or even further is the goal of water guidance. Although we should still be at a disadvantage compared to Japan and Australia, and we have no advantage over South Korea, a new cycle has just begun, and the girls are cheering.
In addition, I will share with you a women's football girl staying in the foreign war report. At the same time that Li Lei joined the Swiss grasshopper late last month, Yang Shuhui, a 21-year-old full-back of shanghai women's football team, joined Ligue 1 women's team Charente Suva'ao. On January 9, the newcomer Yang Shuhui had already started in the French Cup, and in the match with her opponents, in the 78th minute, she shot a left foot long-range shot over the crossbar from outside the box to help her teammates make up for the empty goal. The team also eventually reversed its opponents and reached the round of 16 of the French Cup. I believe that the excellent performance will win her more playing opportunities, the team is currently in the bottom 3rd place in Ligue 1, the strength is weaker, but also gives Shuhui more opportunities to exercise.
In 5 days, the Chinese women's football team will usher in the first match with The Chinese Taipei team. At present, the team is very united and harmonious, from the social media of the players are full of confidence, look forward to starting from here, under the guidance of the old women's football team Shui Qingxia, under the efforts of Wang Shuang and other girls, sonorous roses will continue to write glory!
Women's Asian Cup Group Stage Schedule:
January 20th, 18:00 China vs Chinese Taipei
January 23, 18:00 Iran vs China
January 26, 22:00 India vs China