I believe that many fans know that our Chinese football is in a trough period, especially in the past two years, which can be described as desperate. Because just during the recent New Year, our national football team played a humiliating battle, that is, on the night of the first day of the New Year, the national football team lost 1-3 away to the Vietnamese team, the first time in history to lose to Vietnam. And it is precisely because of the defeat of this game that the national football team completely failed to qualify for the World Cup finals.
Of course, in fact, it is not only the result of the game that makes our fans tangled, because the process of the game made our fans more sad, and we found that our team was passive even facing the Vietnamese team on the scene. Our defence was easily breached by the opponent's overall coordination and rapid conduction, and Vietnam's first two goals were scored very easily, passing the ball unguarded at the front of the box, and then the forward players shot directly at the goalkeeper to score. And our attack is even more tragic, when we organize the attack, as soon as the players take the ball, almost 3 Vietnamese players block the line, which directly leads to our inability to play the ball, either ending with a big foot pass, or being snatched and counterattacked. In short, this game made the national football team miserable.
The Vietnamese team's restrained Chinese team's playing style was actually learned from the Japanese team, because just before the match against the Vietnamese team, the national football team lost 2-0 away to Japan. The national football team was almost completely limited to the half-time in the whole game, and there were few attacks in the whole game, only 2 shots on goal, and 0 shots were on target. Although we all know that there is a big gap between the strength of the national football team and Japan, such data is also too exaggerated, which is equivalent to being completely played by the Japanese team as an amateur team.
Watching these two games, many people felt a sense of despair. Even began to wonder, is Chinese football really incurable? However, just when the fans were desperate, suddenly a Chinese fan felt a strong, hot hope, and this hope also came from Chinese football, but this time it was our Chinese women's football team.
Just recently, the 2022 Indian Women's Asian Cup kicked off, and the Chinese women's football team entered the top 4 after china won 2 or 2 wins in the group stage, and the opponent of the Chinese women's football team was the Japanese women's football team. You should know that the current Japanese women's football team is the boss of Asian women's football, and they are the first team to represent Asia to win the World Cup. And just in the last Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team lost to the Japanese team in the semi-finals and missed the final. And the last meeting between the two sides, the Chinese women's football team was also a 0-3 fiasco. Therefore, not many fans are optimistic that the Chinese women's football team will defeat the Japanese team to reach the final.
And the most worrying thing is that Wang Shuang, the absolute offensive core of the Chinese women's football team, is still injured in training and has no chance to start. That is to say, the overall strength of the Chinese women's football team is not as good as the opponent, and its core players are injured and cannot appear in this bad situation to face the opponent. After the start of the game, we can also see that the Japanese women's football team is better than the Chinese women's football team in terms of individual ability and overall coordination, and the scene is almost not much different from the men's team against the Japanese team. And in the 26th minute of the first half, he was broken by the opponent's head mallet, and many fans at that time thought that the Chinese women's football team was out of the game, because the strength of the scene seemed to be too different from the opponent. Fortunately, the second half had just begun, and the Chinese women's football team used a counterattack to equalize the score with a cross from the side. And the Chinese women's football team finally held the draw within 90 minutes.
After entering the extra time, the Japanese team knocked on the door of the Chinese team early. In the 103rd minute of the match, Riko Uegi's header gave Japan another lead. Falling behind in extra time and with a lot of physical fitness, many people thought the game might be over. At this time, a veteran of the Chinese women's football team stepped forward, and it was precisely because of her play that changed the outcome of this game. And the veteran is 32-year-old center Wang Shanshan.
In the 119th minute of the game, Zhang Xin crossed from the left and Wang Shanshan snatched the ball in the left corner of the penalty area. China women's football team is tied in extra time, 2-2! It can be said that Wang Shanshan's goal made the Chinese women's football team instantly come back to life, and at the same time, the last moment shattered the hope of the Japanese women's football team to directly qualify. After the extra time draw, came to the penalty shootout, the first four rounds of the two sides to 3-3, in the final round, the first japanese women's football team lost the penalty, and then the last appearance of Wang Shanshan stood in front of the ball very confidently to score the ball, to help the team score 6-5 overall score to advance to the women's Asian Cup final. This is also the first time that the Chinese women's football team has entered the final of the Asian Cup after 2008. And Wang Shanshan's penalty directly shattered the Dream of Japanese Women's Football Promotion.
And Wang Shanshan's one peace and one kill took less than 20 minutes, in a short period of time to make Japanese football twice bow its head in despair, it is estimated that only Wang Shanshan. I have to say that in this game, Wang Shanshan has a bit of a feeling of the Japanese team's nemesis. Of course, we are also very clear that this victory does not mean that our football level is better than that of Japanese football, because we see a huge gap in the field. But we were able to win this game thanks to our unity and willpower, as well as our indomitable sonorous rose spirit. No matter how difficult it was, they did not give up, and it is precisely because they did not give up that they created miracles. And this is something that Chinese men's soccer teams should learn.
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