In the first round of Group D of the Women's World Cup group stage on the 22nd, the Chinese women's football team lost 0-1 to Denmark. The latter's 89th-minute shootout allowed the Chinese women's football team to pass the first point of this tournament, and also made the Chinese women's football team's road to promotion extremely difficult.
In the dressing room after the game, several young players cried, tears representing the women's football girls' reluctance to defeat and their thirst for victory. At 19:00 Beijing time on July 28, the Chinese women's football team faced the Haitian women's football team, and there was still hope of promotion, but the Chinese women's football team only had a backwater match.
Haitian women's football is not a "fish belly"
Haiti's women's football team is the "new team" of the World Cup, but this opponent proved to the world with a single game that they are not afraid of any team.
Haiti Women's Football, ranked 53rd in the world, most of the players play in the French Women's Football League, including captain Montdehill, midfielder Du Monet and other six players play in Ligue 1 Women's Football, and most of the other players play in the French Second Division and the United States Second Division.
Haiti's women's team, who participated in the World Cup for the first time, did not have much presence, but their performance in the first game against England women's football team shocked everyone's jaws. Despite the overall downside in possession, shots and shots on target, the Haitian women's team only lost 1-0 to the world's fourth-ranked England. This is entirely thanks to the presence of the head coach and the players.
Haiti women's head coach De Lepin took over in February 2022 to lead the team to the Women's World Cup, and then quickly showed his coaching wisdom. The Frenchman has proven himself extremely adaptable, using five different formations after taking charge. In Haiti's opening game against the United States at the CONCACACAF Championship last year, De Leipin played a defensively focused 5-3-2 formation. Despite the Haitian women's team's hard work, the United States eventually won 3-0. De Lepin switched to a more effective 4-3-3 formation in the second game of the group stage against Mexico, and the team reacted well to win 3-0. In the play-offs, he tried a 4-4-2 formation against Senegal, followed by a 4-1-4-1 formation against Chile in the final. In the first match against England, De Leipping once again played a 4-3-3 formation, maintaining pressure on England while stabilizing the defense, and also created many scoring chances.
Before this tournament, the biggest weakness of the Haitian women's football team was considered to be in the tournament experience. But judging from the first game, De Lepin, the experienced "conductor", has made up for this deficiency well.
The best in you must be brought out
From the overall strength point of view, the Chinese women's football team still has a great chance to win.
Judging from the first match against Denmark, the Chinese women's football team has not yet been able to bring out its best side. Therefore, in the battle with the Haitian team, on the one hand, the women's football girls should take advantage of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, and give full play to the characteristics of fast speed and good foot technology, instead of fighting for their bodies and strength, and getting too caught in the fight with their opponents. Secondly, since it is already a backwater battle, coach Shui Qingxia can let go of his hands and feet in the on-field command and exert the greatest energy of this team on the offensive end. "The best defense is to attack", in such a "don't win, go home" game, this old adage on the green field is believed to be true. Moreover, it is to look at the opponent's strong points and limit them. In the Haitian women's squad, midfielder Du Monet, who plays for the Ligue 1 Reims women's team, is the centerpiece, she has excellent technique, great vision, in addition to excellent passing skills, she has good passing skills. The 30-year-old veteran Borhelma scored 13 goals in eight games in the Women's World Cup qualifiers, and at 1.77 metres, she mainly plays on the right wing. If the Chinese women's team wants to take all three points from the Haitian women's team, it is key to contain this attacking channel on the left and the attacking organizer Du Monet in the center.
No one wants to be the one who goes home early. In any case, the Chinese women's football team and the Haitian women's football team, which have not scored points for the time being, are bound to give their best in the next matchup and fight for three points. And we have never doubted the determination and courage of the "sonorous rose" to bloom in the face of adversity. Remember last year's Asian Cup? The Chinese women's football team has staged a bloody legend of turning over against the wind, and this time, I believe they can still do it.
Editor-in-chief: Chen Hua
图片来源：新华社 Source: Author: Yao Qinyi