February 6 became a real football night, and winning the championship, upsetting and reversing became the themes of the night. China's women's team won the Women's Asian Cup for the ninth time after its reversal of victory over South Korea, Senegal lifted the Africa Cup of Nations after beating Egypt in a penalty shootout, and Messi scored his first goal of 2022.
Nine Crowns!
On this night of football, the opening climaxes. In the final of the Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team conceded two goals in the first half. At the critical moment, Shui Qingxia made a decisive substitution, and Zhang Linyan, who came off the bench, first created a penalty and then broke the goal with a header. Another substitute, Xiao Yuyi, scored in stoppage time, and the Chinese women's football team reversed the victory.
After defeating South Korea, the Chinese women's football team completed three consecutive knockout matches and won the Asian Cup again after 16 years, which was the ninth time in the history of the Chinese women's football team to win the Asian Cup. Chinese women's goalkeeper Zhu Yu was voted the best goalkeeper in the Asian Cup, and Wang Shanshan was selected as the best player in the Asian Cup.
Africa Cup of Nations: Senegal wins
In the Final of the Africa Cup of Nations, Mane conceded a penalty and Egypt and Senegal exchanged blanks within 120 minutes. In the penalty final, Munem hit the goalpost, Mendi sealed a penalty for Sal, and Mane, who came out for the fifth time, scored a penalty to finally win the championship, which was the first time senegal won the African Cup of Nations.
After missing the title, Salah burst into tears and Mane walked over to comfort his club team-mates. Mendy was named the best goalkeeper at the Africa Cup of Nations, Abubakar won the Golden Boot and Mane was voted the best player.
FA Cup: Defending champions out
In the fourth round of the FA Cup, defending champions Leicester City lost to Nottingham Forest, becoming the first Premier League team to leave early after Arsenal and Manchester United. In the 3rd and 4th rounds, Nottingham Forest eliminated Arsenal and Leicester City respectively.
La Liga: Barca resurrection
Barca also won in a reversal, and with one goal conceded at the opening, Barca scored four goals in a row to reverse the victory over Atletico Madrid. Garvey and Suarez both passed and shot, Traore, who returned to Barca, sent an assist, Alba scored a world wave, and new signing Aubameyang in the winter window also came off the bench to complete Barca's debut.
However, the real protagonist of this campaign is Alves, the Brazilian defender who played at Camp Nou for the first time since returning to Barca, scored his first goal since returning to Barca. At the same time, he also left the field red because of his foot on Carrasco's calf, becoming the first Barça player to score, assist and red in the same game since the 2004-05 season.
In another la Liga match, relying on Asensio's world wave, Real Madrid won 1-0 at home to Granada.
Serie A: Winter window new signings scored, Juve in the top four
Against Verona, Vlahović and Zakaria, two new signings in the winter window, started and made their Juve debuts. Not only that, but the two scored successively and scored Juve's debut goal.
This is the second time since Serie A entered the three-point system that Juve have two new signings teaming up in their debut, the first time in September 2011, when Vidal and Lichsteiner teamed up to score.
Ligue 1: Messi is resurrected
After being eliminated from the French Cup, Paris quickly found their form in Ligue 1, winning 5-1 against Lille, With Pereira scoring twice and Kimpebe, Messi and Mbappe scoring one goal each. Messi finally recovered his best, scoring his first goal of 2022, delivering assists and participating in Kylian Mbappe's goal, where a free-kick hit the crossbar and he scored a 9.2 points after the game.
Not only that, Messi also scored the 759th goal of his career, equaling the goal record of legendary goalscorer Bijan, second only to Ronaldo, who scored 803 goals in the all-time top scorer list.