The Battle of China and Vietnam, which belongs to the men's football team, has ended, and the 1-3 score has set Chinese football forever on the column of shame. However, for the fans, the sad mood may not last long, because at 10 o'clock in the third night of the Chinese New Year, the Chinese women's football team will also usher in the game, the opponent is the Japanese team, which is a good chance to make the fans really happy during the New Year.
At present, the Asian Cup has entered the semi-final stage of the competition, and the Chinese team has also passed the hurdles all the way, locked in the top four in advance, and successfully obtained the ticket to the 2023 World Cup. After Shui Qingxia took office, the Chinese women's football team has so far maintained a record of total victory (compared to the men's football team after the change of coach, Li Xiaopeng has maintained a total defeat result), it can be said that the Football Association's vision of the selection of women's football is much higher than that of the men's football team, and now after the men's football team is eliminated, the Chinese women's football team bears all the hopes of the fans, and the war with Japan can undoubtedly be seen as revenge for the men's football team.
In the previous group stage, the Chinese women's football team was quite strong, beating Taipei 4-0, Iran 7-0, and then reversing Vietnam 3-1 in the 1-4 knockout match. Wang Shuang became the absolute thigh of Shui Qingxia in these three games, scoring a total of 5 goals, temporarily ranking third in the top scorer list. And veteran Wang Shanshan also scored 4 goals, and Tang Jiali, who returned from Yangyang, contributed 3 goals, which made up the strongest trident of Chinese women's football. You know, under jia xiuquan's command before, Wang Shuang was a star he did not need, and Tang Jiali was directly ineligible to join the national team, and now their outbreak also proved that Shui Qingxia's use of soldiers was like a god.
Of course, it must be admitted that the Japanese women's football team, like the men's football team, is also an extremely difficult opponent. They currently rank second in Asia, after Australia. Since the Kangaroo Army was eliminated by South Korea 0-1, Japan became the biggest favorite to win the championship. The Japanese women's team first won 5-0 against Myanmar in the group stage, then beat Vietnam 3-0, and shook hands with South Korea 1-1 in the final round of large rotations. In the just-concluded 1-4 final, it eliminated Thailand with a 7-0 score, showing more strength.
In the past ten years, the Chinese women's football team and the Japanese women's football team have played each other as many as 12 times, which can be described as knowing the roots. But unfortunately, the Chinese team only won two of them, while Japan won 9, and it is self-evident who is strong and who is weak. The only two victories for the Chinese team were the 2013 East Asian women's football tournament, when the Chinese team played well, beating the Japanese women's football team 2-0. Another was in the Olympic qualifiers three years later, this time the Chinese team narrowly defeated Japan 2-1. But in the following 6 years, China failed to win against Japan, which has become the most reluctant opponent for Chinese women's football.
For Shui Qingxia, in the semi-finals of the Asian Cup, she must lead the team to complete the mission of defeating the Japanese women's football team. Especially the national football team has just lost to Japan and Vietnam, and the Chinese fans are extremely depressed in the Spring Festival, so everyone is looking forward to the women's football team to be ashamed of the men's football team. Unfortunately, this game CCTV5 will not arrange live broadcasting, the Football Association has not issued a winning bonus, the women's football girls only rely on their own excellent performance, it is possible to beat the Japanese team and give the motherland the best New Year gift.