On the evening of January 30, Beijing time, the quarter-final of the 20th Asian Cup Women's Football Tournament in Mumbai, India, ushered in a focus battle, with the Chinese women's football team facing the Vietnamese women's football team. In the end, the Chinese women's football team defeated Vietnam with a 3-1 reversal and successfully advanced to the semifinals after conceding a goal first. At the same time, the Chinese women's football team also won the ticket to the 2023 Australia/New Zealand Women's World Cup Round of 32.
Due to the host India women's football team breaking out that a number of players were infected with the new crown and had to withdraw from the game, the Chinese women's football team only played two games in the group stage. In the first match, the Chinese women's football team defeated Chinese Taipei 4-0, and in the second game, it defeated Iran 7-0, and finally locked the top spot in the group to advance to the top 8 with a record of two total victories. According to the rules that the Asian region will get 5 places directly to the World Cup, the Chinese women's football team has automatically obtained the ticket to the 2023 World Cup after defeating Vietnam to advance to the final four of the Asian Cup last night.
In this Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team performed strongly, they won two games in the group stage, scored 11 goals and did not lose a goal, strongly won the first place in Group A, and defeated the Vietnamese women's football team, which was 3rd in Group C, in the quarterfinals, and successfully advanced to the semifinals. In this game, the Chinese women's football frontcourt trident continued to lead the game, the captain Wang Shanshan, Wang Shuang, Tang Jiali all started, and the goalkeeper replaced the beautiful goalkeeper Zhao Lina as the starter.
In this battle, the Chinese women's football team unexpectedly lost the ball first, and in the 11th minute of the opening game, Yang Lina sent a oolong assist in a panic, and the Vietnamese team unexpectedly took the lead. But the Chinese girls did not mess up and continued to pressure their opponents at their own pace. In the 25th minute, the forward double Wang Shuang and Wang Shanshan successfully connected, and Wang Shuang broke the goal to equalize. At that time, after Receiving the ball from the outside of bounds, Wang Shanshan turned around and pulled open the gap after the Cross, the Vietnamese goalkeeper saved the ball, the ball just landed at the feet of Wang Shuang, who rushed to the horse, and she hit the goal in one fell swoop.
Yi Bian fought again, the Chinese women's football team continued to exert strength, Wang Shuang once again showed super personal ability, assisting Wang Shanshan and Tang Jiali to score goals in two minutes, helping the Chinese team to lock in the victory in one fell swoop. In the 52nd minute, the Chinese team launched a quick counterattack after the ball was broken, Wang Shuang got the ball on the right side and picked out the penalty area, Wang Shanshan got the ball near the penalty spot and turned around and shot low into the far corner to break the goal to help the Chinese women's football team rebound the score! After 1 minute, Wang Shuang made a comeback, after the Chinese women's football team broke the ball in front of the field, Wang Shuang found Tang Jiali in the front of the penalty area after getting the ball, and Tang Jiali followed up and buckled the defensive pumping shot in the upper left corner of the goal! Lock in a 3-1 win!
In another key match, the Japanese women's football team beat Thailand 7-0 and will be in the semi-finals of the Chinese women's football team. In this way, the opponent of the Chinese team in the next round will be the Japanese women's football team that has won two consecutive Asian Cups in the past two years! The last time the Chinese women's football team defeated them was in the Rio Olympic Qualifiers many years ago, and since then, the Chinese women's football team has been in a slump and has struggled to win against Japan four times, and the most recent meeting between the two sides was in the 2019 East Asian Football Championship, when the Chinese women's team lost 0-3 to their opponents.
Compared with the three games experienced by the Chinese women's football team before, the Japanese team is a completely different level of opponents, but the Chinese women's football team is not completely without opportunities, especially the hot state of the "frontcourt trident" at the offensive end is the magic weapon for the Chinese women's football team to win the opponent. In the three games that have been completed, the Chinese women's football team has amazing attack power, has scored as many as 14 goals, the "frontcourt trident" has participated in most of the goals, of which Wang Shuang has contributed five goals and three assists, veteran Wang Shanshan has shot a pass, and Tang Jiali, a veteran general, has also scored three goals in the past two games, and the attack combination of the three is amazingly efficient, which will become the key to the semi-final Chinese women's football team.
It is gratifying to see that the trident of the women's football team in this game has scored goals, and also sees the huge potential of wu Chengshu, a young player who will play later. However, the women's football defense is still not reassuring, the backcourt is not decisive in handling the ball, the experience is insufficient, the defense of the middle road is not strong, there are gaps on both sides, and the 13th in addition to creating oolong assists, I don't know what she is doing on the field. If the Chinese women's football team still wants to go one step further, the midfield defense is the biggest hidden danger, and head coach Shui Qingxia also needs to balance the chinese team's attack and defense more effectively, so that the Chinese women's football team can go further.
The Asian Cup Chinese women's football team Lectra Vietnam advanced to the semi-finals and will play against Japan! It is worth mentioning that the Chinese men's football team will play against Vietnam at 20:00 on February 1 (the first day of the Chinese New Year), and this time the women's football team has already set an example for the men's football team. The Chinese women's football team defeated Vietnam, can the men's football team do it? I hope they don't disappoint the fans, and don't add to the blockage of fans across the country in the New Year!