Who is the biggest contributor to the Chinese women's football team eliminating the Japanese women's football team on penalties? Undoubtedly, it is the veteran who scored a goal in extra time to equalize the opponent, and then scored a goal in the penalty shootout to set a winning goal - Wang Shanshan.
In the absence of the team's core Wang Shuang, Wang Shanshan, as the captain of the team, has become the mainstay of the Chinese women's football field. In the game, she can attack and retreat, and she can play two positions alone, not only completing the task of attacking and defending at both ends, but also bravely standing up when the team needs her most and giving her a fatal blow.
In the last minute of the extra time, when the Chinese women's football team was almost eliminated by the opponent, she stood up in a critical moment to turn the tide against the opponent. In the final round of the penalty shootout, she calmly pushed against the pressure and killed the two-time defending Asian Cup champion with a sword.
Are the "lucky stars" of the Chinese team
This is Wang Shanshan's great moment! At this moment, she is the "lucky star" of Chinese women's football. This reminds people of the "lucky star" of the Chinese men's football team - Yu Dabao.
In the last Round of 12, it was Yu Dabao's goal that helped Lippi's national team defeat the South Korean national team 1-0, thus defeating decades of "Koreanophobia" in one fell swoop and breaking the embarrassing record that the Chinese men's football team had not defeated the South Korean team in the competition for decades.
It's all forwards who play defenders
Many sharp-eyed fans found that in this game, Wang Shanshan played different positions in different situations, and she played both as a striker and as a central defender in one game. In the words of the live commentator, the attack can rush to the opponent's bottom line, and the defense can retreat to the own side of the box.
In this game, Wang Shanshan reached the forward line when the Chinese women's football team needed to attack, especially when the team was behind. And in the balance between the two sides, she appeared at the center back position again and again to destroy the opponent's attack.
Wang Shanshan played both forward and defender in one game, and coach Shui Qingxia's arrangement was very surprising. The advantage is that there is an additional center-back to participate in the defense when retreating, and Wang Shanshan will also wait for the opportunity to plug in when attacking, which is almost equivalent to B2B's style of play.
Switching from a forward to a centre-back, Wang Shanshan is a bit like Yu Dabao – one will play forwards and one will play at center-backs.
After slowly getting older, striker Yu Dabao was transformed into a central defender by the Beijing Guoan team, which once made the national football coach Lippi unhappy. But later, after Li Tie became the coach of the national football team, he always used Yu Dabao as a central defender.
Remember the name - Wang Shanshan! They are all the lucky stars of the team, all of them play central defenders from forwards, and these similarities have made some fans jokingly call Wang Shanshan "Yu Dabao" for women's football.
As a veteran, Wang Shanshan was indeed admirable for being able to score goals after insisting on playing for more than 120 minutes. Especially when she equalized in extra time, she was breathless and half-squatting on the turf, really tired enough. Despite her exhaustion, she delivered a fatal blow to the Japanese women's team in the penalty shootout.
Wang Shanshan is not Yu Dabao, playing defender is at most her side job, and forward is the main business! Yu Dabao, on the contrary, is playing as a central defender is his main business, and playing forward is actually a guest.