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On January 30, the penultimate day of the Lunar New Year, the Chinese women's national football team will face the Vietnamese women's football team in the quarterfinals of the Women's Asian Cup. Coincidentally, on the first day of the Chinese New Year in the Year of the Tiger, the top 12 opponents of the Chinese men's national football team were also Vietnamese. In China and Vietnam, there are many similarities in folk customs, such as the traditional festival of the Spring Festival. Today, the performance of their respective men's and women's national teams in the matchup also determines to a certain extent who is more comfortable with the fans of the two countries to spend the Spring Festival.
Against the Vietnamese women's team's quarter-finals, the Chinese women's football team can directly get a ticket to the 2023 Women's World Cup as long as it wins. However, with the strength of the Chinese women's football team in the Asian scope, the goal of "Sonorous Rose" is not only to reach the final four of the Asian Cup and win the World Cup, the goal of the Chinese women's football team is naturally to impact the best ranking.
After reaching the quarterfinals, every team has a chance. As an athlete, I have participated in the World Cup and it is definitely a good opportunity for the players to appear on the international stage and improve through competition. But for ourselves, we still have to do ourselves, really enjoy the fun of the game, and believe that we can get rewards after paying.
——Shui Qingxia, head coach of the Chinese women's national football team
Judging from the performance of the Vietnamese women's football team in the group stage of 2 losses and 1 draw, and barely advancing to the quarterfinals as the third in the group, it is difficult for them to become an obstacle to the progress of the Chinese women's football team. A more realistic problem facing the Chinese women's football team is that due to the host Indian women's football team's multiple players infected with the new crown, they can not make up the 13 people required by the rules, which led to the final round of the group stage between the Chinese women's football team and the Indian women's football team being cancelled. In the group stage of their own group stage, the Chinese women's football team has one less chance to run into the real battle than the eight-round opponents. In this regard, The Chinese women's football coach Shui Qingxia said that in the treatment of such accidents, the team can only adapt to changes, maintain the intensity through training, and do not need to be too entangled.
Once the Chinese women's football team crosses the threshold of vietnamese women's football team, the semi-final opponent will most likely be the Japanese women's football team. After a 0-2 defeat to the Japanese men's soccer team, the Chinese men's soccer team has arrived at the next match venue, Hanoi, Vietnam, in the early morning of January 29 local time. After successfully passing the nucleic acid test, the team took a short break and began its first training session after arriving in Hanoi that afternoon.
From the perspective of training, the main players in the last game against Japan were mainly adjusted, and the other players were more intense. The good news is that all 26 players in the team have participated in normal training, and the lineup is relatively neat. Although the local temperature is not as warm as expected, it is also higher than Tokyo, which is more suitable for the players to play. Unlike the Chinese women's football team, which is very sure of winning the World Cup, although the Chinese men's football team still has the hope of qualifying in theory, the initiative is no longer in its own hands. However, the outside world does not have excessive expectations for the national football team, but hopes that the Chinese men's football team will play a spirit, play a level, play a new meaning, and do not "add blockage" to the fans on the first day of the New Year.
The opponent of the Chinese men's football team, the Vietnamese men's football team, suffered a 7-game losing streak in the round of 12 after losing 0-4 to Australia in the last round, and was eliminated early. In the face of the Chinese men's football team, the Vietnamese men's football team has clearly stated that it will fight for honor and strive to end the losing streak. In fact, before going to Australia, due to the suspension of accumulated yellow cards or positive tests for the new crown, the main players of the Vietnamese team, Such as Gui Ngoc Hai and Ruan Jinling, did not go to Australia with the team. Today, Ruan Jinling and Ruan Wenquan have recovered, but the team captain and main defender Gui Yuhai just tested positive on the 29th, and it is basically determined that he will not be able to play in the new year's day.
Even if the opponent loses the main force, the Chinese men's football team does not have the capital to relax its vigilance. After all, the last time the two teams met, the Chinese men's football team was equalized by the opponent in the case of a 2-goal lead, if it were not for Wu Lei's goal in the last moment of the game, the Chinese men's football team almost missed a good game. The lesson of the last game, the international footballers should not forget, not to mention this time to the home of the Vietnamese men's football team, the home team that did not have too much performance pressure, with the help of the fans, may break out in a better state, all kinds of difficulties, the Chinese men's football team has to defend. Even if the fans have long had psychological expectations that the Chinese men's football team will not be able to participate in the Qatar World Cup, after all, Li Xiaopeng's coaching has just taken office, and he also needs to pave the way for subsequent coaching through victory. On this special day of the Lunar New Year, a victory is the best gift that the Chinese men's football team can give.