Xi'an, February 4 (Xinhua) -- After a 120-minute battle, the Chinese women's football team defeated Japan on penalties in the semi-finals of the Women's Asian Cup held in India on the 3rd and successfully advanced to the final. This is also the second time that the Chinese women's football team has reached the final after 14 years. This not only brought surprises to fans who were in the Spring Festival holiday, but also made people see the hope of the revival of Chinese women's football. The "sonorous rose" bloomed again and became the common expectation of everyone.
After the defeat at the Tokyo Olympics, the re-formed Chinese women's football team set sail again from the Shaanxi National Games. In the face of objective factors such as the short time to form the team, the limited personnel run-in, the short end of the Women's Super League, and the short time for some team members to return to foreign leagues, the new Chinese Women's Super League Wuhan, Jiangsu and Shanghai three strong teams as the team, supplemented by excellent players from many teams, repacked and set off again, whether it is during the National Games in the name of "united team" to compete in the domestic arena, or in the face of the Asian Cup group stage and knockout opponents, the Chinese women's football team is steady and steady, step by step, so that Chinese football in the trough sees hope.
This Asian Cup is the latest review of the development level of Asian women's football and the 2023 Women's World Cup qualifiers. Although in the quarter-finals it was strongly impacted by the rising star Vietnamese team and fell into the unfavorable situation of falling behind by one goal shortly after the opening, whether it is a psychological adjustment or a tactical choice, this brand-new Chinese women's football team has let people see the style of the old women's football team - even if it is in trouble, it is still calm and calm. In the semi-finals, facing the old rival Japan women's football team, in the whole game possession rate of only 33.1%, the number of shots and shots in the whole game are one-third of the opponent, the Chinese women's football team with the correct tactical arrangement, the appropriate position adjustment, two times behind, two equalizers, and then through the penalty shootout to defeat the opponent, fully demonstrated the spirit of tenacious struggle, never give up, blood to the end of the women's football spirit.
Winning japan again has become a thing of the past; the glory of reproduction is even more expected! Two days later, the Chinese women's football team will once again come to the Asian Cup final, which is both familiar and unfamiliar, and it will be possible to reach the top of Asia again. After defeating Japan, Chinese women's football coach Shui Qingxia said that the Chinese women's football team can once again enter the final of the Asian Cup in the process of reshaping, which not only makes the players more confident, but also marks the re-setting of the Chinese women's football team.
It is expected that the women's football girls will continue to show their fighting spirit in the final of the Asian Cup under the inspiration of the exciting battle song of "Rainbow of Wind and Rain, Sonorous Rose...", lay a solid foundation for the preparation of the Women's World Cup, accumulate full confidence, and contribute to the construction of "sports power".
Editors: Liu Ning, Huang Xuguo, Zhou Xin, Wang Wanqi (Intern)