In the early morning of February 4, Beijing time, the semi-finals of the Women's Asian Cup ended a focus battle, and the Chinese women's football team fought hard for 120 minutes to draw the Japanese women's football team 2-2, and the game entered a penalty shootout. In the end, the Chinese women's football team relied on the two saves of goalkeeper Zhu Yu to win 4-3, eliminating the Japanese women's football team 6-5 on aggregate, and successfully turned the tables to advance to the final against the South Korean women's football team.
In the history of the Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team won 8 championships, ranking first in history, the last time it won the championship had to be traced back to 2006, the Japanese women's football team won the championship twice, and the last two times won the championship, so it is the defending champion team this year.
In this group stage, the Chinese women's football team locked the first place in the group with 2 consecutive wins, the Japanese women's football team won 2 wins and 1 draw to suppress the first place in the Korean women's football ranking group, followed by the 1/4 final Of which the Chinese women's football team eliminated the Vietnamese women's football team, and the Japanese women's football team eliminated the Thai women's football team, and the two teams met in the semi-finals for 3 consecutive times.
Before the game, the Chinese women's football team announced the start, coach Shui Qingxia sent Tang Jiali to attack the city, Wang Shanshan changed to play center back, and the star Wang Shuang entered the substitute list due to injury, and did not play in the whole game.
In the previous 3 games, Wang Shuang was the Chinese women's football team attacking the thigh, scoring 5 goals and assisting 3 times, 2 statistics firmly ranked first in the team, this time did not have the opportunity to start, so that the Chinese women's football frontcourt attack threat was greatly reduced, easily suppressed by the Japanese women's football team.
In the 25th minute of the first half, the Chinese women's football team conceded a goal first, replicating the second goal lost by the Chinese men's football team against the Japanese men's football team last month, and it was a defensive look in front of the goal, Miyazawa Hinata crossed, and Riko Ueki flicked her head between the 2 defenders to help the Japanese women's football team take a 1-0 lead.
At the end of the first half, the Chinese women's football team fell behind 0-1, with 3 shots on goal and 0 shots on target in the half, and the possession rate was only 25%, lagging behind the Japanese women's football team in an all-round way.
Entering the second half, the Chinese women's football team immediately equalized the score, Xiao Yuyi just came off the bench for 1 minute, inserted into the penalty area to receive a teammate's pass and knocked in front of the goal, Wu Chengshu wrapped the pad to shoot in, the Japanese women's football goalkeeper could not save, the score became 1-1 draw. Both teams then had a chance to kill, but both missed out and the game went into 30 minutes of extra time.
In extra time, the Chinese women's football team fouled in the 12th minute, gave the Japanese women's football team a free kick opportunity, and then drove into the penalty area, Riko Uegi followed up with the header to win, and the Japanese women's football team won 2-1. In the 119th minute, Wang Shanshan scored a goal to help the Chinese women's football team equalize 2-2, and the game entered a penalty shootout.
In the end, the Chinese women's football team won 4-3, eliminating the Japanese women's football team 6-5 on aggregate and successfully advancing to the final. This victory allowed the Chinese women's football team to avoid being eliminated by the Japanese women's football team in the semi-finals of the Asian Cup for three consecutive years, and defeated the Japanese women's football team for the first time in the Asian Cup for 14 consecutive years, impacting the first Asian Cup championship in 16 years.