On the evening of February 3, Beijing time, in the semi-finals of the 2022 Women's Asian Cup, the Chinese team eliminated the Japanese team with a total score of 6-5 through the penalty shootout and advanced to the final! In this game, the women's football girls withstood great pressure and were still able to defeat their opponents tenaciously despite the injury of the number one star Wang Frost. The fighting spirit of the women's football girls is touching, compared to the performance of the Chinese men's football team.
In this game, the number one star of the Chinese women's football team, Wang Shuang, was unable to start because of his feet, and in the first half of the game, we looked extremely passive, the Japanese team has been pressing us to play, and Riko Ueki also scored with a header in the 25th minute. In the half, the Japanese team had a possession rate of 72.8%, shot 9-3, shot 3-0, and The Chinese team's 0 shots reflected the huge impact of Wang Shuang's absence.
However, the women's football girls did not give up, only 1 minute after the opening of the second half, Xiao Yuyi got the ball on the left side, and Wu Chengshu followed up in the penalty area to shoot through the net, and the score became 1-1! It is worth mentioning that Wu Chengshu got the starting opportunity because of Wang Shuang's injury, she proved herself with a valuable goal, and Xiao Yuyi, who sent an assist, just came off the bench, and the substitution adjustment guided by Shui Qingxia received a miraculous effect.
In the next game, it is still the Japanese team that dominates the attack, but the girls of the Chinese women's football team are not blindly sticking to it, and still dare to press forward to limit the opponent when they have the opportunity. At the end of the 90-minute match, the score was still 1-1, and it went into extra time. In extra time, japan wanted to score first, and Shimizu Wasa hit the crossbar with a shot from the top of the arc in the 97th minute. In the 103rd minute, Japan took advantage of a set-piece opportunity to be headed by Riko Ueki and then the next city, 1-2! VAR confirms that the goal is valid.
Just when the Japanese team thought they were going to win, in the 119th minute, Wang Shanshan scored an equalizer for the Chinese women's football team, Zhang Xin crossed from the left, Wang Shanshan grabbed the outside foot pad in the penalty area and shot, VAR confirmed that the goal was valid, 2-2! In the end, the Chinese women's football team drew with the Japanese team, and the game entered the penalty shootout!
The penalty shootout was suffocating, and Zhu Jue pounced on the penalty of Japanese team captain Sashi Kumagaya as soon as he came up, and a reassuring pill was eaten! But Zhang Xin pushed the ball offside. In the second round, Hasegawa only helped to run and then gave a strong shot to break the goal, and Zhang Rui also hit steadily, 1-1! Then Qing Shui Pear Sha, Yang Lina, Nagano Wind Flower and Gao Chen all hit the gate, and in the crucial 5th round, Zhu Jue saved Nan Menghua's penalty, and Wang Shanshan scored a winning goal! China women's football team 4-3 in penalty shootout, the total score of 6-5 eliminated the Japanese team! Chinese women's football team creates miracles!
This is a day for Chinese women's football girls! The Chinese women's football team will play against the South Korean team in the final, and Li Ying's pre-match prediction came true, and she posted before the game: "Just tonight, the effort will have a miracle." Women's soccer girls, did it!