The opening match of the Chinese women's Asian Cup is lightly won by the Chinese Taipei team, and the next team will face the Iranian team

Source: Global Times

【Global Times report Xu Yunfeng】The Chinese women's football team led by new coach Shui Qingxia brought a victory to bring a "good start" to Chinese football in the New Year! On the evening of the 20th, the first round of the group stage of the 2022 AFC India Women's Asian Cup was unveiled. In a focus battle in Group A, the Chinese women's football team won the Chinese Taipei team 4:0 with the goals of Wang Shanshan and Zhang Xin and Wang Shuang' double, and temporarily took the top spot in the group.

"Fantastic Start"

After this campaign, the Chinese women's football team and the Chinese Taipei women's football team have a record of 8 wins and 1 draw, and the Chinese women's football team has maintained a total victory in 6 meetings since 2014 (scoring 17 goals and not conceding a goal). "At the sun-drenched Mumbai Stadium, the Chinese women's football team made a fantastic start at the opening match of the Asian Cup," the AFC official website said after the match, the Chinese women's football team appeared on the international stage for the first time since July 2020, and they quickly entered the state and dominated the game as soon as they started, establishing a 2:0 lead in the first 10 minutes.

According to the rules of the competition, the top two of the three groups and the two best groups of the Asian Cup reached the top eight, and then the final place was determined by the knockout round. The outcome of this Asian Cup is also related to the ownership of the ticket to the World Cup finals, except for Australia, the five teams with the best results will directly lock in the tickets for the 2023 ANZ Women's World Cup.

According to Taiwan's "Eastern Sen News Cloud" report, after 14 years of playing the Asian Cup again, the Chinese Taipei women's football team is led by Japanese head coach Echigo and men, judging from the recent performance of the team's international competition, it is expected to receive the first women's World Cup ticket in India in 32 years - even if it cannot advance to the Semi-finals of the Asian Cup to the World Cup, the 5th to 6th-ranked teams can still compete in the play-offs and the intercontinental play-offs next year to qualify for the 2023 World Cup.

"I hope to win the championship in the end"

This game has multiple meanings for Chinese football, in addition to the first game of the New Year, which is also the first appearance of women's football in an international competition after the Tokyo Olympic Games, or the debut of The team after Shui Qingxia took over the coaching whip of the Chinese women's football team. As the third runner-up of the last Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team has a high chance of reaching the semi-finals and successfully getting world cup tickets.

Shui Qingxia previously said that the ultimate goal of the Chinese women's football team in the Asian Cup in India is to win the championship, "I hope to finally win the championship and play better results, which is also my desire to coach." First of all, play our due level, the opponent is different, the way we take is different, the hot weather, these will affect the team's play. Hopefully the team can get to the end. ”

According to the official website of the AFC, Wang Shuang is eager to return to the top of Asia with the Chinese women's football team, and the goal of the Chinese women's football team in this Asian Cup is to end the 16-year championship drought - the 15th time to play in the Asian Cup, and the Chinese women's football team, which has won 8 championships, 2 runners-up and 3 third places in the past Asian Cup, has reached the top of the Asian Cup dating back to 2006.

Next opponent: Iranian women's soccer team

According to the schedule, the Chinese women's football team will next have a duel with another opponent in this group, the Iranian women's football team, on the 23rd. The two teams rarely play each other at the senior national team level, and in 2015, the Chinese team defeated Iran 4:0 at the Asian Championships of U16 women's football.

According to the latest edition of the fifa website world rankings, China's women's football team ranks 19th in the world and 5th in Asia, and the Iranian women's football team, which participates in the women's Asian Cup for the first time, ranks 70th in the world and 14th in Asia.

According to the official website of the AFC, the Chinese women's football team has the best start on the road to the 9th Asian Cup title in the history of the team, and their attention will shift to the confrontation with iran in the future, while the Chinese Taipei team (the world's 39th) will face the host India (the world's 55th) in the second round.