Another Chinese team is expected to qualify for the World Cup! In the Women's Asian Cup play-off that ended last night, the Chinese Taipei women's football team won a 3-0 victory over the Thai women's football team with Su Yuxuan's goal and Chen Yinghui's 93-minute goal. After winning the match, the Chinese Taipei women's football team just beat the Vietnamese team with a one-goal advantage, temporarily ranking first among the three teams. In the last round of matches, the Chinese Taipei women's football team only needs to draw with the Vietnamese women's football team to successfully reach the round of 32 of the Women's World Cup. For Chinese football, if 2 women's football teams qualify for the World Cup at the same time, this is undoubtedly a new milestone.
The Chinese Taipei women's football team is currently ranked 39th in FIFA, and in the previous quarter-finals, they lost to the Philippines in a penalty shootout and eventually missed the opportunity to directly qualify for the World Cup. Fortunately, this Women's World Cup has expanded to 32 teams. As a result, Chinese Taipei women's, Thailand and Vietnam can compete for a place in the play-offs.
In this match against the Thai women's football team, the Chinese Taipei women's football team adopted a more stable offensive strategy, focusing on counterattack tactics. They have only 38% of the ball in terms of possession, while the Thai women's football team is as high as 62%. In terms of shots, the Thai women's football team made 9 shots on goal and 4 shots on target. The Chinese Taipei women's football team scored 5 shots on goal, 3 shots on target, and scored 3 goals. In the 44th minute of the first half of the game, Su Yuxuan used her personal ability to score first. After achieving 1-0, the Chinese Taipei women's football team played more and more smoothly.
In the 85th minute of the second half of the game, Su Yuxuan scored again. She also scored twice to help the team lead 2-0. However, since the previous Vietnamese women's football team also won 2-0, the Chinese Taipei women's football team needed to score another goal if it wanted to gain the promotion advantage. In the end, they still attacked wildly in stoppage time, and Chen Yinghui scored a killer goal in the 93rd minute to freeze the score at 3-0!
In the last round of the game, the Chinese Taipei women's football team and the Vietnamese team directly PK, this game, the Chinese Taipei women's football team only needs to draw the opponent, that is, can successfully qualify for the Women's World Cup with a one-goal advantage. Believing in such a temptation, the Chinese Taipei women's football team will not give up easily. If they also qualify for the World Cup, then next year's Women's World Cup, China will have 2 women's soccer teams participating.