On the afternoon of February 6, 2022, Beijing time, the final of the fifth and sixth places in the Women's Football Asian Cup began. Vietnam Women's Football Vs Chinese Taipei Women's Football Team, this match is very important because the winner can directly qualify to the main match of the World Cup. As a result, Vietnam scored 1 goal in the first half. Just after the start of the second half, Chinese Taipei quickly equalized, after which Vietnam scored a goal against the score. In the end, the Vietnamese women's team defeated the Chinese Taipei women's football team 2-1, and for the first time realized their desire to enter the World Cup.
The two teams have played each other in seven previous matches, including the Women's Asian Cup, Friendly Matches, Asian Games Women's Football and Women's Olympic Asian Selection. The Vietnamese women's enough record of 3 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses is equal with the Chinese Taipei team. The two teams last met on August 24, 2018, when Vietnam drew 0-0 in 90 minutes and lost 3-4 to Chinese Taipei on penalties. And that defeat was also the second consecutive time that the Vietnamese women's football team fell to the feet of the Chinese Taipei women's football team. Therefore, this re-battle is also a revenge battle for the Vietnamese women's football team.
In the starting lineup, the Vietnamese women's football team sent a 3511 formation, while the Chinese Taipei women's football team sent a 541 formation. In this game, if the Chinese Taipei women's football team defeats or draws with Vietnam, then they will directly qualify for the World Cup, and the Vietnam team needs to play the intercontinental play-offs, and the winner will enter the World Cup. On the contrary, if the Chinese Taipei women's football team loses, it will be in the same situation as the Vietnamese team.
After the match began, Vietnam made a fantastic start when vietnam won a corner kick and Cho Cho jumped high inside the penalty area and his header broke the deadlock. The goal sparked vietnamese attacking enthusiasm, and in the first half of the game, Vietnam occupied 72% of the possession, but the number of shots on goal was not much, only 3 shots on goal and 1 shot on target.
In the 20th minute of the first half, Chinese Taipei scored a goal, and Chen Yanping wrapped it up in front of goal. However, after the referee's confirmation, it was determined that the ball was qualified first, so it was invalid attacked.
In the 49th minute of the second half, Su Yuxuan of Chinese Taipei helped the home team equalize, and the youngster born in 2001, almost all of the tactics of Chinese Taipei were developed around him. At that time, the Chinese Taipei team launched an attack in the front, Wu Kaiqing took the ball and implemented a short pass between Su Yuxuan, who had the opportunity to face the goalkeeper alone, and finally scored from a small angle.
The Chinese Taipei team's lead was only maintained for 6 minutes, in the 55th minute, the Vietnamese team launched an attack in front, after a 45-degree diagonal pass on the right side, the Chinese Taipei players lost their defensive position, Nguyen Thi Bi Chui got the ball in the penalty area and scored with one foot, and the Vietnamese team rewrote the score to 2-1.
In the 62nd minute, the Chinese Taipei team attacked, only to be defused by Nguyen Thi Bi Chui, who had just scored a goal, in the form of a foul, for which there was almost a clash with the Chinese Taipei players, and finally the referee gave Nguyen Thi Bi Chui a yellow card. When the Vietnamese coach saw this situation, it seemed that he had a premonition that there was something wrong with Nguyen Thi Phu Thi's mood, and immediately replaced her with Nguyen Thi Thanh Yah. But in the 68th minute, Nguyen Thi Thanh Received a yellow card on an attack in front.
In the last 20 minutes, although the Chinese Taipei women's football team stepped up its attack and had several better chances, it was finally deflected by the goalkeeper. In the end, in terms of offense, it has become the end of the crossbow, and has to accept the outcome of 1-2 defeat.
This game also set 2 new records. First, Vietnam has played the World Cup for the first time in its history, which is another big event for Vietnamese football, and its significance is far greater than the Vietnamese men's football team beating the national football team; second, the Vietnamese women's football team has ended its record of three winless games for the first time since 2015, which lasted seven years, and the Vietnamese team also ended its embarrassment of not winning five rounds in the Women's Asian Cup.