The 20th Women's Asian Cup is being held in India, and the Chinese women's football team is led by Shui Qingxia to fully impact the 9th championship in the history of the team. The main competitors of the Chinese women's football team are the Japanese women's football team and the Australian women's football team, while the South Korean women's football team has risen in recent years and has the strength to compete with the Three Teams of China, Japan and Australia for the championship.
In the first round of the group stage, the Four Major Champions of China Women's Football, South Korea Women's Football, Japan Women's Football and Australian Women's Football have won and are now entering the second round of group stage.
The Chinese women's football team is still the first to appear in the championship favorite, against the Iranian women's football team that competes for the first time. The Chinese women's football team broke the deadlock under continuous siege by Wang Shuang, and then the Chinese women's football team completely broke the Iranian women's football back line, and finally won a 7-0 victory and completed the dimensional reduction strike.
This victory allowed the Chinese women's football team to advance to the top 8 in the first round, coupled with the withdrawal of the host Indian women's football team, allowing the Chinese women's football team to lock the top place in the group one round in advance, and the top 8 opponents were the third place in group B or the third place in group C.
The Chinese women's football team won 7-0 against the opponent, and other favorites who competed for the championship also won. The South Korean women's team faced the Myanmar women's football team, and the team did not break the deadlock until the second half, and finally won 2-0 to qualify in the early round. In the whole game, the South Korean women's football team had a 72% possession rate, and the shot crushed the opponent 16-3.
The Australian women's football team, which appeared later, won 18-0 in the first round of the team, showing the strength of the championship favorite, this round against the Philippine women's football team, the Australian women's football team broke the deadlock until the second half, and finally 4-0 to hang the opponent, also in the early round of qualifying, the whole game completed 30 shots on goal, and 8 shots on target.
The latest appearance in this round was the Japanese women's football team, which also had an overall advantage against the Vietnamese women's football team, and finally won a big 3-0 victory, accumulating 6 points from 2 consecutive wins and scoring 8 goals to push the Korean women's football team to continue to lead the group.
Now, the Chinese women's football team, the South Korean women's football team, the Japanese women's football team, and the Australian women's football team have played a normal role, and they have locked up the top 8 seats in advance. The Chinese women's football team locked the first place in advance, the Australian women's football team won the first place in the group, the Japanese women's football team and the Korean women's football team were in the same group, and the final round of direct confrontation, the Japanese women's football team could get the first place in the group by drawing.
Judging from the number of goals scored in the first two rounds alone, the Australian women's football team ranked first with 22 goals, the Chinese women's football team rose to the second place with 11 goals, and the Japanese women's football team and the Korean women's football team ranked third and fourth respectively, reflecting the similar paper strength of the four teams.
The last time the Chinese women's football team won the championship was in 2006, and since then it has failed to win the championship for four consecutive times, and now it is necessary to win the championship after 16 years, and it needs to face the challenge of three major champions. In terms of CCTV broadcasting, it still refuses to broadcast the Women's Asian Cup matches live, including the matches of the Chinese women's football team, which is not comparable to the Chinese men's football team participating in the round of 12.