On the evening of February 3, 2022, Beijing time, the second match of the semi-final of the 2022 "Women's Asian Cup" continued, with the Chinese women's football team vs the Japanese women's football team. In the first half, Japan led 1-0, and just after the start of the second half, the Chinese team lightning equalized. The 1-1 score was maintained until the end, and the two teams advanced to extra time. In extra time, after the Japanese team scored another goal, the Chinese team drew with the opponent in the last moment, and the two teams entered the penalty stage. Finally, in the penalty shootout, the Chinese women's football team defeated the Japanese national football team 4-3 and successfully advanced to the final. Considering that the opponent in the final is the South Korean team, the possibility of the Chinese women's football team winning the championship is very large.
In the past decade, the gap between the Chinese women's football team and the Japanese women's football team has become larger and larger, in the first two "Women's Asian Cup" semi-finals, the Chinese team has encountered the Japanese team, and the first two times have been eliminated, the Japanese team also won the championship after eliminating the Chinese women's football team.
Because Wang Shuang had a foot before the game, he did not appear in the starting lineup. To this end, the offensive system around Wang Shuang will change. Therefore, Shui Junxia made a 5-player rotation for the starting lineup. Judging from the first half of the game, the Chinese women's football team played very passively on the scene, and almost the whole field was suppressed. Since there is no player like Wang Shuang in the midfield to form a constraint, the Japanese team has no worries about pressing high positions.
In the 25th minute, the Japanese women's football team finally broke through the chinese team's goal under the premise that the Chinese goalkeeper missed a good opportunity many times. At that time, Japan's Miyazawa Hinata carried out a 45-degree diagonal cross on the right side of the Chinese team, and Japan's 21-year-old striker Riko Ueki used a header to break the goal.
In the second half, Shui Junxia changed two people in a row, Zhang Rui and Xiao Yuyi came on, replacing Ma Jun and Zhang Linyan. This substitution played a "curative effect". In the 46th minute, Xiao Yuyi of the Chinese team almost copied the Japanese women's way of scoring, and in the japanese team's right-hand under-the-bottom cross, Wu Chengshu rushed ahead of the defender and blocked the ball with his body, and the Chinese team equalized in the second half.
For a long time after that, although the Japanese team still occupied the advantage of the scene, it did not dare to attack like the first half, because the Chinese team's attack made the Japanese team have a lot of worry. Although the Chinese team is very passive, there are also several more threatening attacks.
In the 65th minute, the women's football girl Lou Jiahui was seriously injured in a scramble, and was carried on a stretcher, and Gao Chen came off the bench. It should be said that the fighting spirit of women's football girls is still worthy of our admiration, thinking about the Chinese men's football team, it is really not a taste in the heart.
In the 85th minute, the Chinese team escaped a disaster, due to the mistake of the Chinese team's central defender, the Japanese team's front line hit a gap behind the back, and formed a single knife, but the final shot was deflected, although the referee later determined that the Japanese team was offside, but it was too scary, giving many fans a cold sweat.
In the 88th minute, the Chinese team also encountered a great opportunity for the ball, Tang Jiali received a pass from her teammate and burst into the penalty area almost forming a single knife, but because the stop ball was too large and was destroyed by the goalkeeper, this ball if it was Wang Shuang, it may have been scored.
After 90 minutes of stoppage time, the two teams drew 1-1 and entered extra time. In the 96th minute, the Japanese team's shot in a joint attack hit the crossbar of the Chinese team, and the Chinese women's football team once again escaped the disaster, and the Japanese team's shot was really scared to death.
In the 103rd minute, the Japanese team scored a goal through a free kick, Riko Ueki's header from the fork broke the goal, and after the confirmation of the VAR, the goal was determined to be valid, and the Chinese player failed to create an offside position, mainly because the Chinese player was equal to Riko Ueki with one foot and fell behind 1-2.
In the 120th minute, the Chinese women's football team won a free kick, and after Zhang Xin sent the ball, Wang Shanshan still scored the equalizer goal with the Japanese team's goal. The Chinese team only had 2 shots on target, and the whole game had two good opportunities, fortunately, the Chinese team seized it.
In the last moment, Xiao Yuyi of the Chinese women's football team cramped, but the Japanese players attacked eagerly and did not pay any attention to it, and finally the Chinese women's football team came together, successfully defended and kicked the ball out of the bottom line. In the end, after 120 minutes of the game, the two teams fought a 2-2 draw, and the game entered a tense penalty shootout.
In the penalty shootout, the first round of penalties was saved by Zhu Yu, and then Zhang Xin's penalty was deflected, losing the opportunity to lead. Penalties in the second and fourth rounds, both teams scored. In the fifth round of penalties, Zhu Yu saved the penalty and the opportunity came to the Chinese women's football team. The fifth appearance was captain Wang Shanshan, who scored the winning goal and advanced to the final with her head held high.
In the end, the Japanese team lost 4-3 to the Chinese women's football team in the penalty shootout and unfortunately fell in the semifinals. This match also created 3 humiliating records, namely: in the history of the "Women's Asian Cup", the Chinese women's football team has suffered three defeats by the Japanese team, and 2 times it fell at the feet of the Japanese women's football team in the semi-finals, this battle, the Chinese women's football team rewrote this history; second, the Chinese team washed away the embarrassing record of 4 consecutive defeats by the Japanese team.
In this game, the head coach of the Chinese team, Shui Junxia, was shouting all over the field, and the players were fighting all over the field. Under the premise that the Chinese women's football girls are not as skilled as people, the use of their physical advantages in defense has been played to the extreme, and the pass control advantage of the Japanese team has been suppressed to the best of their ability, in defense, even forward Wang Shanshan has withdrawn to play center back, and the substitution of Shui Junxia in the second half can be said to be the finishing touch. At the beginning of the Year of the Tiger, the Chinese women's football team presented a big gift to Chinese fans.