The Women's Asian Cup continued, and in the semi-final match that had ended, the Chinese women's football team, which was not optimistic before the game, twice fell behind and stubbornly equalized twice, and finally defeated the powerful Japanese team 6-5 through a penalty shootout, and successfully met the South Korean team in the final. After the game, the People's Daily issued a congratulatory article, saying that the indomitable women's football team is a role model! Details are as follows:
How did the Chinese women's football team beat the Japanese team?
In this game, the Chinese women's football team is completely behind the Japanese team in terms of both the scene and the offensive and defensive data. Among them, the possession rate: 32% of the Chinese women's football team, 68% of the Japanese team; the number of shots: the Chinese women's football team 7 times, the Japanese women's football team 20 times; the number of corners: the Chinese women's football team 1 time, the Japanese team 5 times; the number of dangerous attacks, the Chinese women's football team 61 times, the Japanese team 127 times. However, even if the Japanese team's statistics are gorgeous, they eventually lost to the Chinese women's football team, which lacked major generals.
In the first half, 22-year-old striker Ritsuko Ueki scored a header to help Japan open the record, and the Chinese women's team fell behind 0-1; just one minute after the start of the second half, 26-year-old striker Xiao Yuyi assisted the 25-year-old Wu Chengshu to complete the goal, and the Chinese women's football team equalized for the first time. Since then, the Chinese women's football team has not lost points, while the Japanese team has no points, and the two sides have maintained a 1-1 score until the end of regular time and stoppage time.
In the first half of extra time, Riko Ueki of the Japanese team scored again to rewrite the score to 2-1; Yibian fought again, and the 29-year-old Wang Shanshan received a pass from her 29-year-old teammate Zhang Xin to break the goal, and the Chinese women's football team equalized the score for the second time. In the penalty shootout, the first Japanese team to play 31-year-old Sagi Kumagaya's penalty was saved by Zhu Yu, a 24-year-old goalkeeper of the Chinese women's football team, but unfortunately Zhang Xi directly kicked the ball away.
In the next round of 2-4 penalties, both players hit steadily; in the most critical round 5, Zhu Yu once again turned away the penalty of Japan's 23-year-old centre-back Nan Menghua, and Wang Shanshan hit the penalty easily. At this point, the Chinese women's football team defeated the Japanese team 6-5 on aggregate and advanced to the final of the Women's Asian Cup!
What is it about the People's Daily praising China's women's football team as an indomitable example?
Soon after the Chinese women's football team eliminated the Japanese team, the People's Daily posted in its official social account: Indomitable women's football is a model! Head high to reach the final of the Asian Cup! The main force Wang Shuang is absent, the defense is not neat, and the situation on the field is not dominant, but the fighting spirit shown by the Chinese girls is commendable. Trailed twice in the 120-minute game, equalized twice and ended up laughing at the penalty shootout. In the face of what kind of attitude should be shown by strong players, the Chinese women's football team has set an example.
It can be seen that the People's Daily believes that the key factor in the victory of the Chinese women's football team is that there is a spirit of not abandoning and not giving up, and being indomitable. At the end, the Chinese women's football team made an example, which seems to mean that the national football team lost 0-2 to Japan and lost 1-3 to Vietnam.
What do you think of the Chinese women's football team's defeat of the Japanese team?
Objectively speaking, the strength of the Chinese women's football team and the Japanese team are not at the same level, there are two reasons: first, the team ranking is the best embodiment of strength, in the latest world ranking, the Japanese women's football team ranked 13th, while the Chinese women's football team only ranked 19th; second, the Japanese team's previous record was fully dominant, in the last 9 encounters, the Chinese women's football team only achieved 1 win and 8 losses, the winning rate was less than 11.2%. Coupled with the absence of Wang Shuang, the number one star of the Chinese women's football team due to injury, it was generally believed before the game that the Japanese team would advance to the final.
However, even if the Japanese team has the advantage, the final victory still belongs to the Chinese women's football team. There is reason to believe that the indomitable Chinese women's football team will let the sonorous rose bloom again in the final on February 6 (at 7 p.m. on February 6, The Chinese women's football team vs. the Korean women's football team).
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