The Korean team wins! The latest pattern of Group A: Lebanon missed the top spot The Chinese women's basketball team faced the key battle
On the second matchday of the 2023 Women's Asian Cup, the South Korean women's basketball team defeated Lebanon to avoid losing streaks, and the record reached 1-1. The Lebanese women's basketball team suffered two consecutive defeats and missed the top spot in the group ahead of schedule. South Korea's advantage was still big in this game, led by the likes of Park Ji-hyun and Kang Lee-se, who led by 14 points in the first quarter and established a 24-point advantage at the end of the first half. In the second half, South Korea once again widened the gap and won easily.
With the big win of South Korea and Lebanon eating two consecutive defeats, Group A of the Asian Cup changed, Lebanon lost two consecutive games, although not out, but it is no longer possible to get the first place in the group and go straight to the last four. The format of this year's Asian Cup is that after the single round robin of the group, the top place of the group directly advances to the last four, and the second and third groups cross the rematch, and the winner advances to the final four.
After the South Korean team won the game, they still had a chance to win the first place in the group, but because the first game was 2 points away from New Zealand, so the South Korean team wanted to win the first place, they could only hope that the Chinese team beat New Zealand, and then the South Korean team beat the Chinese team in the final round, so that it was a 2-1 state to compete for small points and decide who could go to the final four. Once either the New Zealand or Chinese women's basketball team wins, South Korea can only participate in the crossover match.
After a 45-point victory in the first game, the Chinese women's basketball team took the initiative to advance, and if they can beat New Zealand and South Korea, they will definitely go to the final four and qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Of course, this is not easy, after all, the next two opponents are good, once lost to the New Zealand team, and Lebanon, the weakest in New Zealand's final game, is likely to win 3 consecutive victories, so the Chinese women's basketball team must beat New Zealand to avoid letting the opponent win 3 consecutive wins to advance to the Asian Cup semifinals, so the Chinese women's basketball team coached by Zheng Wei to face the New Zealand team is very critical.
However, on the whole, the Chinese women's basketball team still controls its own destiny, and the players are in good condition, different from the consecutive losses in the warm-up game, coming to the Asian Cup main stage, the Chinese women's basketball team's Han Xu, Li Meng, Yang Liwei and others are still top-notch, while the Chinese women's basketball team is a soldier, and the substitute players also have a good performance.
Looking forward to the performance of the Chinese women's basketball team VS New Zealand, the game time is 15:00 on June 27, the Chinese women's basketball team will occupy the initiative to go to the final four if it wins, and it is very likely that the loss will miss the top of the group, I hope the Chinese team has good luck.