On February 4, Beijing time, the semi-finals of the Women's Asian Cup began on February 3, and the evening match was played by the Chinese women's football team against the Japanese team, and the two sides played a 1-1 draw in 94 minutes of regular time, and each scored a goal in 30 minutes of extra time to play a 2-2 draw. In the end, the penalty shootout was held, the Japanese team scored only 3 goals on 5 penalties, which left the Chinese women's football team with a chance to win, with the key penalty of veteran Wang Shanshan, the Chinese women's football team finally defeated the Japanese women's football team 6-5 on aggregate and successfully advanced to the final of the Asian Cup. This is the second time that the Chinese women's football team has reached the final of the Asian Cup in 14 years, the last time was in 2008. China's final opponent is South Korea.
After the victory of the game, the chinese women's football team all embraced the carnival, and coach Shui Qingxia also joined the ranks, and the whole team cheered to celebrate the victory of this game. The Japanese women's football team has dominated Asian football for more than a decade, and even won the World Cup in 2011, and the Chinese women's football team is on the following side of the game, and it is exciting enough to achieve a reversal and win.
In the whole game, the Chinese women's football team is also three times "back to life", the first time, is the opening 26 minutes on the 0-1 behind the situation, in the second half of the first minute, coach Shui Qingxia made a substitution adjustment, by Wu Chengshu kicked a goal, the score equalized, there is a chance to finally enter the extra time.
Then in the process of extra time, the Chinese women's football team was still scored by the Japanese team first, resulting in a 1-2 fall behind, at this time the Chinese women's football team still did not give up, the veteran Wang Shanshan scored in the case of 28 minutes of overtime near the end, almost pulling the Chinese women's football team back to the "ghost gate" and leveling the score to 2-2.
The third resurrection is the penalty shootout, the first penalty of the Japanese women's football team was saved, but then the Chinese team kicked the first penalty, at this time the Chinese women's football team still did not panic, goalkeeper Zhu Yu pounced on Nan Menghua's penalty, directly letting the Chinese team occupy an absolute advantage. In the end, veteran Wang Shanshan executed the last penalty and scored directly, and the Chinese women's football team won, and the final score was 6-5!
When in the backward, do not give up, do not panic, every round to do their best, this is the biggest portrayal of the Chinese women's football team in this game, this competitive attitude deserves all praise, the Chinese women's football team has regained the momentum of the former sonorous rose, and their winning is worthy of the praise of all fans.
From another point of view, it can better reflect the difficulty of the Chinese women's football team in this game, the opponent Japan is the world champion, and the main force of the Chinese team, Wang Shuang, cannot play, and the whole game has been behind twice. It is in such unfavorable circumstances that the Chinese women's football team can win, and during the Spring Festival holiday in 2022, the Chinese women's football team gave the fans a best gift, so that the fans briefly forgot the helplessness of the Chinese men's football team's 1-3 defeat to the Vietnamese team. In the final against South Korea, look forward to the Chinese women's football team can win the 9th Asian Cup championship in the history of the team!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)