In the second round of the Olympic women's group stage, the Chinese women's football team, ranked 15th in the world, unexpectedly drew 4-4 with zambia, ranked 104 in the world.
After the match, Chinese women's football coach Jia Xiuquan said that he would take full responsibility for the result of the game. Obviously, Jia Xiuquan finally did the right thing, and he really should be fully responsible, because even our opponents had questioned Jia Xiuquan's selection before the game.
Zambian striker Barbara Banda (No. 11), 21, scored a hat-trick against the Netherlands in the last round, while against China in this round. Scoring six goals in two rounds, Banda's goal efficiency is terrifying.
Banda, who shined on the Olympic stage, played for China's Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank team in terms of clubs and was also the Golden Boot winner of the women's Chinese Super League last season. Perhaps it is precisely because of this relationship that Banda is also quite concerned about Chinese football, after the Chinese women's football team announced the Olympic roster, Banda immediately posted on the social platform to bluntly attack Jia Xiuquan: Are you teasing me?
Like Banda, the AFC is puzzled by Jia Xiuquan's selection, and they even posted directly on the official website that they were surprised by the failure of ma Jun, Lou Jiahui and other players.
The result of Jia Xiuquan's selection of people is to make Banda a real beneficiary. In the game, we can see that the backline of the Chinese team without Lou Jiahui being eaten raw and protruded into a sieve by Banda; without Ma Jun, the midfield commander, the Chinese team's midfield organization is completely out of touch, the attack is a big foot of the defender player, and the rest depends on Wang Shuang's personal efforts.
I have to say that Banda, as an opponent, was able to point out our problems early on, and she was really conscientious, and she also proved herself right with practical actions.
After harvesting a draw with Zambia, the Chinese women's football team has now embarked on the old road of "opening battle, life and death battle, and honor battle" for men's football.
Although the Olympic Games 3 in 2 of the 3 groups of the third can also be promoted, but the third team in the group will have at least 1 point, the Chinese team due to the first round of 0-5 loss to Brazil, the current goal difference is -5, the next round of China to play against the World Cup runner-up Team Netherlands, to the performance of the Chinese team in the first two games, not only from the Netherlands team to get points is not a good chance, and even less loss is already very good, to know that the Netherlands team in the last round can be 10-3 win Zambia team. As a result, the Chinese team now wants to qualify, basically only the theoretical possibility.
Jia Xiuquan once said that he wanted to use the Olympic Games to give young players the opportunity to exercise, the problem is that women's football is different from men's football, the Olympic Games is still an important top event in the women's football world, taking such a big competition to train troops, this is simply an incomprehensible idea, it is no wonder that even opponents can't look at him.
The match between the Chinese team and the Netherlands team will be played at 19:30 Beijing time on July 27, and I hope that Jia Xiuquan can lead the team to play this game well, even if he does not have the opportunity to advance, he will fight for the honor of "sonorous rose".