In the early morning of July 26, Beijing time, a key match in Group C of the women's football group stage of the Paris Olympics was played by the Spain women's football team against the Japan women's football team. In the end, the new World Cup champion Spain women's football team reversed Japan women's football team 2-1 to get a good start to the group stage, and it was also a revenge for last year's World Cup 4-goal defeat.
In recent years, Spain's women's football team has developed rapidly, has become a world-class powerhouse, and won the Women's World Cup for the first time last year, but the team's results at the Olympics have been mediocre, never finishing in the top three, that is, missing out on the podium.
This time, the Spain women's football team is in the same group as the Japan women's football team, the Brazil women's football team, and the Nigerian women's football team, and it is not easy to compete for the first place in the group, because the strength of the Japan women's football team and the Brazil women's football team cannot be underestimated, especially the Japan women's football team, which is the world's first-class strength and won the runner-up in 2012.
Coincidentally, in the group stage of the Women's World Cup last year, the Japan women's football team defeated the Spain women's football team 4-0, and after a year, the Spain women's football team naturally wanted to complete revenge.
After the opening, the Japan women's football team played very actively, and the skills at the feet were not inferior to the new World Cup champion Spain women's football team. In the 12th minute, Aoba Fujino took a free kick straight into the corner, helping the Japan women's football team to get a dream start 1-0, and in the face of a desperate situation of falling behind by one goal, the Spain women's football team used the advantage of physical confrontation to suppress the Japan women's football team for a while, and in the 21st minute, Bonmati pushed the goal to tie the score at 1-1.
In Spain Japan the 26th minute, Olga hit the defender with a long-range shot, and in the 39th minute, Irene stopped the ball and turned to hit the goal and was blocked by the defender, and the score was still 1-1 at the end of the first half.
Entering the second half, the control rate of the Spain women's football team gradually improved, remaining above 70%. In the 74th minute, Bonmatti assisted Mariona to score and help the Spain women's football team achieve a 2-1 lead.
After that, the Japan women's football team failed to equalize and finally suffered a 1-2 reversal, which also gave Spain the first Olympic victory in the history of the women's football team, making history.
With the rapid development of European women's football, now Japan women's football is indeed left behind, and this game is the best reflection of the overall disadvantage of Spain women's football, of course, including Chinese women's football, and even missed the finals of this Olympic Games, which is also the second absence.