The U17 Women's Asian Cup continues, and the third round of the group stage Chinese women's football U17 welcomes the strongest opponent in the group, the Japanese women's football U17. Although the women's U17 women's football team scored 6 goals in the first two rounds without conceding a goal, and had a relatively strong performance, the last opponent, the Japanese women's football team, is currently the first in Asia and the top 10 in the world, and there is still at least a grade gap with us.
After the start of the game, Japan's U17 was really better, and its overall strength was much higher than that of the Chinese women's football team. In the 9th minute of the game, Sato's shot hit the post, and Nozomi Fukushima scored with a supplementary shot, giving Japan a 1-0 lead. Then the two sides entered a long fierce battle, and it was not until the 74th minute that the second goal appeared, but then the Chinese women's football team completely collapsed. In the 74th minute, Hana Kikuchi scored a single goal, in the 86th minute, Hana Kikuchi scored twice, and in the 4th minute of stoppage time, Riri Nezu scored with a header, and finally the Chinese U17 women's football team lost 0-4 to the opponent.
The other match in the same group was between Thailand and Australia, whose coach said it was the strongest Under-17 tournament before the tournament began, but the result was a 0-3 and 1-4 defeat to China and Japan respectively, and the manager's ambition was ruthlessly slapped in the face. This match is a battle of honor for Australia U17, if according to the level of the senior women's national team, Asia's third-ranked Australia can definitely beat Thailand, but the Thai women's football team defeated Australia 3-1, the third team in Asia was humiliated by the underdogs, it can be said that the original form.
Although the Chinese women's football team lost to Japan, we still qualified for the semi-finals as the second in the group, because the top three teams in this U17 Asian Cup can qualify for the World Junior Championships, so we need to go further. However, because we are in second place, we will face the other group winners, North Korea Under-17s, which are a team that is about the same level as Japan's Under-17s, and we are not very sure of a win against them. The semi-finals will kick off at 7 p.m. on May 16, and this game is likely to be won by fewer losses.
Fortunately, even if we lose to North Korea, we will be able to fight the losers of the other group for third place, and the other semi-final is Japan against South Korea, who will most likely compete with China for the last place in the World Junior Championships. The South Korean women's football team is also our old rival, although we win more and lose less, but the gap is not so big, and whether it is Asia or the world ranking, we and the South Korean women's football team are next to each other, indicating that the difference in strength between the two teams is not large, who can finally get the World Junior Championship place, may completely depend on the performance of the game.