At 16:00 on January 30, 2022 Beijing time, the women's Asian Cup final four battle began, and the Australian women's football team unexpectedly lost 0-1 to the South Korean women's football team in the 90 minutes of the game, breaking out the biggest cold goal of this Asian Cup. You know, the South Korean women's football team only finished 5th in the last Asian Cup, when they beat the Philippine women's football team 5-0. Australia was runners-up at the last Asian Cup.
In the 2018 Women's Asian Cup, Australia showed a very strong performance, first qualifying as the top of the group, then drawing 2-2 with the Thai women's football team, and defeating Thailand in a penalty shootout to meet the Japanese team in the final. In the final, Australia shot 7 of 16 shots on target, while Japan only had 4 shots on target and 2 shots on target and scored 1 goal. If it were not for the Japanese goalkeeper Koshi Yamashita who also played well, it would be difficult for the Japanese team to withstand the wild attack of the Australian team.
In this match, the South Korean team had a penalty in the first half, but unfortunately Cho Cho Hyun's shot did not score the penalty. The Australian team, which escaped the disaster, seems to see great hope of eliminating the South Korean team. By the end of the game, the Australian women's football team had 59% possession, 10 shots on goal, and 3 shots on target. South Korea's possession was only 41%, with 6 shots on goal and 3 shots on target. And that goal, or the South Korean team in the whole game by the Australian team suppressed the premise, in the 86th minute to use the Australian players a careless "mind", and finally by the 31-year-old Chi Xiaoran scored the ball.
This game also set 3 records. First, South Korean women's soccer player Cho Joo Hyun has made 137 appearances for the Korean team and has played well in the game. Her appearances have surpassed the Korean celebrity van Geun and Hong Myung-fu to become the South Korean international who has participated in the A-class competition the most; second, the South Korean team has achieved a record of 0 wins, 1 draw and 7 losses in the previous record against the Australian team, and the victory of this game has created the history of the first time in the history of the Korean team to beat the Australian team, washing away the shameful record of failing to beat the opponent in 16 years since the first 0-4 loss to the Australian team in 2006; third, The Australian women's team has gone unbeaten in seven games in regular season time in the Women's Asian Cup, and after this match, the record ended.
After the South Korean women's football team entered the final four, their opponents were the winners of the Chinese Taipei women's football team and the Philippine women's football team, no matter who won or lost, they could not compare with the South Korean team in terms of strength. So to a large extent, the South Korean team has announced its entry into the final of this Asian Cup in advance. The final opponents of the Korean women's football team will most likely be selected from the two teams of the Japanese and Chinese women's football teams.