With the conclusion of the draw for the first phase of the Asian qualifiers for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Chinese women's football team has also been decided, in Group B, the Chinese team will be placed in the same group as South Korea, Thailand and North Korea, and the Chinese women's football team will also be the host of this qualifier, which will be played from October 26 to November 1.
From the ranking point of view, the Chinese women's football team is not only the first team in this group, but also the 13th place in the world is stronger than South Korea at 17th and Thailand in 44th, and I am afraid that the most important thing to consider is the North Korean women's football team that has reappeared after 3 years. You must know that before the epidemic, the strength of the North Korean women's football team was the first in Asia, but after a long time without official matches, their strength is indeed a question mark, and they are afraid that they will become an "X factor" in this group. However, regardless of this, according to the rules of the tournament, the first place in each group and the second place in the best group can be qualified, so the Chinese women's football team may be very simple to qualify.
However, the Korean women's football team is not so lucky, and their two major victims in recent years, the Chinese women's football team and the North Korean women's football team are in the same group, the Korean media is almost wailing, and these media have always concluded that if you want to qualify, I am afraid that you need the birth of a miracle!
With the second Asian team in Group B, the South Korean media analysis wants to qualify, the first weakest Thai team is to become the target of the goal difference, and even if this is not enough to qualify, because this South Korean women's team must also win the Chinese women's team or the North Korean women's team to have a chance to qualify.
Against the North Korean women's football team, the South Korean women's football team has a total record of 19 wins, 1 win, 3 draws and 15 defeats, with a win rate of only about 5%! The South Korean women's team has not won a single victory from its northern neighbor since 2005, and it has been 18 years now.
Of course, against the Chinese women's football team, the record of the Korean women's football team is also very bad, in a total of 41 meetings, the record of the Korean women's football team is 4 wins, 8 draws and 29 losses, and the win rate is also only 9%! In the recent meetings between the two sides, the Chinese women's football team has always maintained the upper hand, whether in the qualifiers of the Tokyo Olympics, the Asian Cup final or the East Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team is very much pressure on the Korean team, and it can even be said that the Korean women's football team suffers from "Sinophobia"!
Judging from the current situation of the Korean women's team, many of their players play in the European League, such as 29-year-old striker Lee Kim Min, 26-year-old midfielder Park Ye-eun are all playing for Premier League Brighton College Women, 34-year-old veteran Cho Chao Hyun is playing for Tottenham Hotspur Women, in addition to Lee Yong Joo who plays for La Liga Madrid CFF Women's Team. However, the problem of the Korean women's football team is also very obvious, that is, their older generation players such as Chi Xiaoran are no longer enough to gain a foothold abroad, and most of the Korean women's football players are now unable to go out and stay in the ocean, from this point of view, the Chinese women's football team is doing better than them.