The joining of former women's super league "Golden Boot" Tabitha has made the Wuhan women's football team more powerful. (Courtesy of the club)
Yangtze River Daily Wuhan client October 12 (reporter Ma Wanyong) "Now that all the players have returned, the whole team is also in Kunming for the final joint training, hoping to bring more victory news to our Wuhan fans in the next game." On the evening of October 11, Chang Weiwei, head coach of Wuhan Chegujiang Women's Football Team, said in an interview with the Yangtze River Daily reporter.
In another week, October 19, the 2021 Women's Super League, which has been suspended for nearly 5 months, will rekindle the flames of war at the Kunming Haigeng Base, and the Wuhan women's football team, which has won consecutive victories in the first three rounds, will also successively usher in the challenges of Jiangsu, Shanghai, Changchun and other fierce opponents. But as core player Wang Shuang said, this year everyone has only one goal, that is, to defend the women's super championship!
New signings fierce -
"Three consecutive wins" embarked on the road to defending the title
In the 2020 season, the Wuhan women's football team, which has been dormant in the women's super league for two years, has made a splash, defeating the former king Jiangsu women's football team twice in the women's super league and winning the women's super league championship with an undisputed posture, which is also the first time in the history of Wuhan football to win the domestic top league championship.
In the new season, a new journey, from the championship to the defense of the title, Wuhan Women's Football Club has hired a new coaching team and introduced new internal and external support, which can be described as reloaded.
In mid-April, Chang Weiwei, who had coached the women's national football team, the men's national Olympic team, the Chinese Super League and the Chinese First Division, took over the coaching whip and became the new coach of Wuhan women's football team.
In terms of players, although wang shanshan, Han Peng and Xiao Yuyi, who won the championship last season, left, the addition of ma jun, Gu Yasha, Wang Yan and others made Wuhan women's football team still maintain a strong team of players. Of course, the most newsworthy reinforcement is undoubtedly the addition of foreign aid Tabitha, this Malawi foreign aid has become a nightmare for almost every opponent since joining Jiangsu women's football, the invincible myth created by Jiangsu women's football in the 2019 season, the first credit naturally belongs to the women's super "golden boot" Tabitha.
On May 8, the opening match of the 2021 Women's Super League began, with Wuhan Women's Football Team playing against Sichuan Women's Football Team. Tabitha showed off her goalscorer just nine minutes into the opening, taking the lead with a powerful headstick strike to top the defending title. In this game, Wuhan team won the opponent 4:0 lightly and won the "opening red".
In the next two rounds, Wuhan women's football team defeated Shandong women's football team and Beijing women's football team 4:0 and 5:0 respectively, and firmly occupied the top spot in the standings with a record of 13 goals scored in 3 games and 0 goals conceded.
In the first three rounds of the game, the new tabisha and Gu Yasha performed well, both scoring goals, while Tabitha's sister Temwa was more courageous with the blessing of her sister, "scoring twice" in three consecutive games, occupying the top spot in the top scorer list with 6 goals. The core of the team, Wang Shuang,is becoming more and more ethereal, and in addition to scoring goals herself, she also assumes more of the role of an offensive "planner".
The Return of the Dead ——
Biya and Han Peng build "three-dimensional strike"
After the end of the three rounds of the league, the Women's Super League entered a long truce period to "make way" for the Olympic Games and the National Games. Wuhan women's football team is also divided into several groups, of which Wang Shuang, Zhu Yu, Wang Yan and other national team players have been playing until the end of the final of the National Games on September 25, while other players have represented the provincial delegations to participate in the National Games... "Almost on October 3rd, all the players have returned to the team, and then we will face the most important task of this year, defending the women's Super League champion." Head coach Chang Weiwei said.
In fact, Chang Weiwei is not worried about the team's overall tactical run-in, because he has full confidence in his players. "Whether it is Wang Shuang, Zhu Yu, players who go to the national team, or experienced veterans such as Gu Yasha and Ma Jun, their understanding of tactics and execution on the field are very strong, and after this week's training, I think they have found a feeling."
It is worth mentioning that during the truce period, the club's reinforcement work did not stop. Last season's Wuhan women's football star player Biya came directly from Japan to Wuhan after representing the Brazilian women's football team in the Olympic Games, and the midfielder Han Peng, who once left the Wuhan women's football team, also returned again, which further strengthened the strength of the team.
Compared with the configuration of the first three rounds of the league, the return of high school forward Biya has made the Wuhan women's football team have a "tactical fulcrum" in the midfield, and the veteran Han Peng's excellent long-range shooting kung fu is a weapon to break the dense defense, it can be said that the current Wuhan women's football team really has a comprehensive "three-dimensional strike" system at the offensive end.
Head coach Chang Weiwei also said that in fact, the "double fast" combination of Tabitha and Temwa has shown great power in the league, but the return of Biya and Han Peng has given the team more choices in platooning and on-the-spot tactical conversion. Of course, due to the Women's Super League rules that each team can only play two foreign players per game, how to make a reasonable choice and match among Bia, Tabitha and Temva, Chang Weiwei may have to face the "trouble of happiness".
Full of confidence -
Wang Shuang: Our goal is to defend the title
2021 is a "devil's journey" for Wang Shuang, and in the past 10 months, she has hardly rested. At the beginning of the year, he began to prepare for the Olympic qualifiers with the national team, staged a "kill" in Suzhou in mid-April, sent the Chinese women's football team to the Tokyo Olympic Games; in May, he turned to the women's Super League, scored 2 goals in 3 games, and helped the team complete the "three consecutive wins" start; in June, he represented Hubei team in the National Games qualifiers; in July, he participated in the Olympic Games with the national team; and then joined the Olympic United Team without taking off his clothes until he won the Women's Football Championship of the National Games on September 25...
"This year is indeed a bit tired, after the End of the National Games finally a good rest, now all aspects of the state are back to good, the next step is to go all out to compete in the league." On October 3, Wang Shuang returned to the Wuhan women's football team, which had been away for more than three months, and began to prepare for the last goal of the year.
The women's super league champion has an unusual weight in Wang Shuang's heart, and he remembers that after the Wuhan women's football team won the championship for the first time last season, Wang Shuang held the gold cup in his hand and smiled like a child. Wang Shuang himself also admitted that he had won the women's Super League championship on behalf of Dalian Quanjian before, but as a Wuhan native, wearing the shirt of the hometown team, the feeling of winning the championship on behalf of the hometown team was completely different. "This year we have only one goal, which is to defend the Women's Super League title."
Wang Shuang told the Yangtze River Daily reporter that her confidence is very sufficient, because the strength of the team has been further enhanced this year. "Although the mentality will be different from when I went to fight for this title last year, for me it doesn't feel like 'protecting' this title. On the pitch we take every opponent seriously and try to win, and from the game itself, I am very confident. ”
It should be said that in the Wuhan women's football team, Wang Shuang can play more calmly than when he was in the national team. There is a large number of teammates with good strength, such as The "Fulcrum" of Biya, such as Tabitha and Temwa, as well as a large number of teammates with good strength, such as Ma Jun, Yao Wei, Lu Yueyun, Gu Yasha, Han Peng, Wang Yanshan, Liu Shanshan, Liu Yanqiu, etc., Wang Shuang finally does not have to pick a thousand jun, and also hopes that Wang Shuang, who returns to his hometown team, can simply enjoy the happiness brought by football in the next game.
【Editor: Tao Qing】
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