Chinese women's football team VS South Korea preview: Win and miss the Paris Olympics Winning ≠ qualifying still depends on luck
At 19:35 on November 1, Beijing time, in the final round of the second phase of the group stage of the Olympic preliminaries in Asia, the Chinese women's football team played against the South Korean women's football team.
Head-to-head record
The two teams have met a total of 44 times in history, and the Chinese women's football team has won 32 wins, 4 draws and 8 losses, occupying an absolute advantage, and has been unbeaten in the last 9 games, and the last time they lost was in the 2015 East Asian Cup.
In the Asian play-offs of the Tokyo Olympics Qualifiers, the sonorous roses won 1 and drew 1 in two legs; In the 2022 Asian Cup final, it staged a 3-goal reversal after falling behind 0-2, and finally successfully won the championship. The most recent meeting was at last year's East Asian Cup, where the two sides drew 1-1.
Qualifying situation
After the first two rounds, the South Korean women's football team and the North Korean women's football team both have 4 points, and the Chinese women's football team has 3 points. Only the first place in the group can qualify directly, and the second place in the group needs to compete between groups, and only the best results can qualify.
For the Chinese women's football team, if this game is not won, even if it is just a draw, then there are only 4 points in 3 rounds, and they will definitely miss the top two in the group, because the North Korean women's football team cannot lose to the Thai women's football team (there is no suspense about winning). So, we're going to miss out on the Paris Olympics altogether!
Only by winning can the Chinese women's football team surpass South Korea and finish second in the group with 6 points. But with the second PK of the other two groups, goal difference may be a disadvantage: in the case of only one goal difference in the second round, it is necessary to beat the South Korean women's football team as much as possible, which is undoubtedly very difficult, so it takes luck and competitors to win less.
Will Shui Qingxia change the formation?
In the life-and-death battle with the South Korean women's football team, can Shui Qingxia have the courage to break the boat? Or is it still as conservative as it used to be? That's a big question. In addition, there are also players who are sick, although Wu Chengshu, Li Mengwen, and Yao Wei have subsided their fevers, will their competitive state be affected? Liu Yanqiu is still suffering from a fever.
Expected to start
XU Huan; Li Mengwen, Wang Shanshan, Dou Jiaxing, Chen Qiaozhu; YAN Jinjin, YANG Lina, SHEN Mengyu, ZHANG Linyan; Wang Yanwen, Wuri Gumula