In the Women's Asian Cup, the Chinese team successfully won the championship with a 3-2 victory over South Korea. In the previous match against Japan, the Chinese team was even more tenacious, twice behind and equalized twice, and finally eliminated the opponent through penalties. Similar to women's football, Chinese women's ice equalized in the case of falling behind, and won the opponent through a penalty shootout reversal, almost cloning the script of women's football. Coincidentally, in these 2 matches, the Chinese team is against the Japanese team, which can be called god synchronization.
The Third Round of The Women's Ice Arena B of the Winter Olympic Games was a focus battle in which the Chinese women's ice team met the Japanese women's ice. At this Winter Olympics, Japan is the strongest opponent in Group B, currently ranking 6th in the world, while China is only ranked 20th. In the first two rounds, the Chinese team first lost 1-3 to the Czech Republic and suffered a black opening, and then defeated Denmark 3-1 to win the first victory of the Winter Olympics. The Japanese team won the first two rounds, respectively, 3-1 against Sweden and 6-2 against Denmark, showing strong strength. Since the top 3 in the group can only qualify, this game is very important for the Chinese team.
In the first set, the Chinese team suffered the first blow, and forward Zhang Mengying collided with her teammates and was injured, and then left the field. The Japanese team took the lead in breaking the deadlock in the 18th minute with a goal from Akane Hosoyama.
In the second set, the Japanese team launched a number of threatening attacks, and the Chinese team defended very tenaciously, resisting the attack of the other side, and neither side scored.
In the 3rd set, the Chinese team, which was behind by the score, gradually stepped up its offensive attack, and Hu Baozhen scored a goal to make the score 1-1. At the end of the 60-minute regular time, the two teams fought 1-1 and had to go into extra time.
According to the regulations, the two teams will play a 3-minute 3-minute matchup in extra time. But neither team made it to success and ended up in a brutal penalty shootout. In the penalty shootout, Chinese goalkeeper Zhou Jiaying played extremely bravely, saving 5 consecutive penalties from the Japanese team, while Chinese striker Miller withstood the pressure when the penalties of the first three teammates were saved, scoring a winning goal to help the team finally beat the opponent 2-1.
Since it was a penalty shootout to win, according to the rules, the Chinese team can only get 2 points, and the Japanese team also gets 1 point. In this way, the Japanese team ranked first in the group with 7 points and qualified early, while the Chinese team ranked third in the group with 5 points. In the last round, facing the Swedish team, which lost 2 games and accumulated 0 points, the Chinese team can advance to the top 8 as long as it does not lose to the opponent (in regular time).