On January 20, Beijing time, the girls of the Chinese women's football team are about to usher in the opening match of the Women's Football Asian Cup. After experiencing the setbacks of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the change of managers, and the gold medals of the National Games, the sonorous rose once again marched towards the culmination of Asia. As the team's new head coach Shui Qingxia, this Asian Cup is the first big test after taking office, so as the head coach, are she and her women's football team ready?
Lineup construction is very different, Shui Qingxia "abandons the Olympic 13 people"
The new coach generally does not break the original personnel structure, but after Shui Qingxia took up the women's football coaching whip, the list of Chinese women's football did have a world-shaking difference compared with Jia Xiuquan's period, and the 13 players participating in the Olympic Games were "abandoned" by Shui Qingxia. Saying that it is "abandoned", in fact, most of these players are mainly fresh blood, in the Olympic Games, Jia Xiuquan's employment idea is to train new people for women's football, and from the results, it is difficult for young players to resist the pressure of the competition, which also lays the groundwork for the fiasco of the women's football Olympic Games. After Shui Qingxia took office, the team was adjusted for the upcoming Asian Cup, and many inexperienced young players were no longer called up, but replaced by the return of veterans such as Li Ying, Li Jiayue, Zhao Lina, Ma Jun, and Lou Jiahui. The purpose of Shui Qingxia's approach is very clear, and she does not want to make any more mistakes in important events such as the Asian Cup, after all, the level of Chinese women's football in Asia is still in the first group.
However, there are still two "accidents" in the newly released women's football 23-man list, one is the absence of captain Wu Haiyan, and then Wu Haiyan himself said that he is still recovering from injury, so he failed to enter the final list. In addition, Shen Mengyu, a young player who stayed in Yangyang, also failed to be selected, compared with Tang Jiali of the Women's Football Team of Liuyang Tottenham Hotspur, but was successfully selected, and such a personnel selection may prove from the side that Shui Qingxia pays more attention to the guidelines of competition experience.
Defensive line problems are old and difficult, who can become the needle of the sonorous rose
At last summer's Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese women's football team led by Jia Xiuquan lost miserably to Brazil and the Netherlands in the group stage, and was forced to draw 4-4 by the Zambian women's football team, which was far below its own in the world ranking, and finally ranked at the bottom of the group with a humiliating record of only 1 point in 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, scoring 6 goals but conceding 17 goals, which also set the worst record in the history of the team participating in the Olympic Games.
Such achievements are directly related to the weakness of the women's defense line, and the 17 goals conceded unreservedly expose the current problems of the women's football team in the defense line. For Shui Qingxia's women's football team, the defensive problem is still a difficult problem. On the one hand, defense needs an orderly system as a support, and a mature defensive system cannot be trained in just one or two months. In addition, the bad news for the women's football team is the absence of captain Wu Haiyan. If Wu Haiyan can play, then it is a good thing for the women's football defense, but her injury has not yet recovered, and the position of the women's football defense line to determine the sea god needle continues to be vacant.
However, for the problem of women's football defense, Shui Qingxia did not sit still. In the competition of the National Games, Shui Qingxia transformed Wang Shanshan into a central defender, and such a strange recruitment achieved good results. Shanshan Wang is not a temporary cameo centre-back, she has played in this position before. But this is obviously not the most suitable position for Wang Shanshan, as one of the most capable frontcourt players in women's football, Wang Shanshan is still more threatening to appear in the opponent's penalty area.
In the end, Wang Shanshan is still a good offensive player in the frontcourt, and it is not realistic to expect her to be able to defend the defensive line. Then looking at the women's football roster, there are actually defensive players such as Wang Xiaoxue and Li Jiayue. For Wang Xiaoxue, the growth of the past two years is very rapid, and her rapid growth in Jiangsu women's football team has become the core of the defense line, and she has also been recognized and appreciated by former head coach Jia Xiuquan. In the absence of Wu Haiyan, Wang Xiaoxue and Li Jiayue need to shoulder the heavy responsibility of guarding the women's football defense line.
Wang Shuang's front line is isolated and helpless The women's football offensive end needs fresh blood
As an absolute sharp knife figure in the front line of women's football, Wang Shuang will undoubtedly once again shoulder the heavy responsibility of the sonorous rose to destroy the city and pull out the wall. But as far as the current women's football team is concerned, relying on Wang Shuang alone is by no means enough to kill four parties in the Asian Cup. This requires more fresh blood to join the offensive end and form a synergy with Wang Shuang to deal a devastating blow to the opponent's defense line.
In addition to Wang Shuang, the offensive end of the women's football team is not without elite soldiers. Tang Jiali, who plays for the Spurs women's football team, has gradually gained a foothold in the Premier League, and her speed is also a sharp weapon for the women's football team to destroy the city. In addition, people such as Li Ying, Wang Shanshan and others need to exert their best efforts at the offensive end and do a good job as Wang Shuang's helper, so that the attack of the women's football team can punch to the flesh and directly approach the opponent's lifeline.
Shui Qingxia wants to let the women's football team return to the technical transmission control flow?
After Shui Qingxia took over the women's football team, her transformation of the team on the tactical end has quietly begun. Former head coach Jia Xiuquan's positioning of women's football tactics is to first do a good job of defense, and then seek to counterattack. So as mentioned earlier, the women's defense line is inherently a weakness, so why talk about defending first? The brutal facts of the Olympic Games proved the failure of Jia Xiuquan's tactics, while Shui Qingxia's tactical thinking was completely different from Jia Xiuquan's.
Shui Qingxia is more advocating the pass control play, just like Barcelona, the women's football team will control the ball more at their feet, which can also alleviate the pressure on the defense to a certain extent. The return of the old women's football team is also enough to support the tactical thinking of Shui Qingxia, and the technical and tactical level of the main force of women's football at the Asian level is still at the top. In the upcoming Asian Cup, Shui Qingxia's tactics will also be one of the most exciting points to watch.
The Asian Cup sonorous roses look forward to blooming
After the nightmare performance of the Olympic Games, the confidence of women's football girls and fans and media can be said to have suffered a devastating blow. Shui Qingxia was brave in choosing this time to face the difficulties, and her first task after taking office was to rebuild the confidence of the team members, and she did it. The cup of the National Games has made the women's football girls regain a little self-confidence, the Asian Cup is about to start, and the soldiers of the Chinese women's football team will embark on a journey of thorns, I hope that you will step into the green field with confidence and look forward to the sonorous roses blooming on the top of Asia again.