In the first round of the women's Olympic preliminaries on the afternoon of the 8th, Beijing time, the Chinese women's football team defeated South Korea's women's football 2:1 in the away game and took the lead in the Tokyo Olympic qualification competition.
This victory also marks a good start for Chinese football in 2021!
When the Chinese women's football girls stood on the international arena again, 420 days have passed.
For this Tokyo Olympics ticket, they have been waiting for too long.
Chinese football also waited too long.
The women's football girls celebrate the goal.
Image source: Visual China.
The women's Olympic preliminaries are like a switch. In February of last year, the Chinese women's football was far from adversity in Australia.
But since then, the global epidemic has become serious, and sports events including football have basically been suspended.
The top 40 national football world preliminaries and the national echelon competitions have been pushed again and again, and even cancelled.
The 1:1 Kanping match between the Chinese women's football team and the Australian women's football team has become the national football team's "sweet sing" in the international arena in 2020.
The Chinese women's football team beat the South Korean women's football team 2:1.
Image source: Visual China
Now after more than a year, this Olympic preliminaries play-off match with the Korean women's football team has finally been fulfilled after being postponed four times. The Chinese women's football team has since kicked off the Chinese football campaign in 2021.
After this, the national football team will be on the top 40 of the world preliminaries, and the ready-to-go Chinese Super League is about to kick off.
Data map: On February 13, 2020 Beijing time, the Chinese women's football team in the Olympic preliminaries pitted the Australian women's football team 1:1.
The picture shows the starting players of the Chinese women's football team singing the national anthem before the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tao Shelan
Therefore, in addition to the meaning of competing for qualification for the Tokyo Olympics, for Chinese football, this is also an urgent need to bet a shot.
This is not to deliberately endow this Olympic preliminaries play-offs with such a high degree and value, but for Chinese football, which is struggling under the epidemic and undergoing a period of transformation in the post-Jinyuan era, it really needs such a victory to inspire. confidence.
The current Chinese women's football team can be called a "mystery teacher". The team's list of teams was not announced to the outside world until the press conference the day before the game.
Compared with the Olympic preliminaries in February last year, the Chinese women's football lineup has undergone a certain degree of change. Shooter Li Ying, teenager Zhang Linyan and other 12 people are no longer on the list, and half of the team's players have changed.
However, Wu Haiyan, Wang Shanshan, Tang Jiali, Zhang Xin, Ma Jun and other core players are still on the list, and they are waiting for the return of Wang Shuang, who was unable to fight due to the epidemic prevention and control at that time.
In the battle with South Korea, they also appeared in the starting lineup, the main frame of the overall change is not big, only made fine-tuning in individual positions.
The starting list of the China-South Korea war.
Fortunately, this time the women's football girls once again lived up to expectations.
In just 5 minutes of opening, China created two good absolute opportunities.
It's just the fine processing and the final kick, because before the long-term blank period of international competitions, there is still a lack of a certain sense of competition.
Chinese women's team Zhang Xin scored the first goal.
Seeing the Korean women's football gradually gaining momentum, in the 32nd minute, the Chinese women's football caught the opponent's backcourt and made a mistake. After a quick cross, Zhang Xin was the first to win.
But only 6 minutes later, the South Korean women's football team regained a victory through a quick counterattack.
The South Korean women's football equalized the score.
After the opening of the second half, the two sides were basically in a stalemate.
Until the 72nd minute, Tang Jiali made a penalty in the penalty area, and Wang Shuang resisted the pressure and made a penalty.
The Chinese women's football team leads 2:1 again!
In the end, the Chinese women's football team defeated South Korea's women's football team 2:1 away as they wished, and took the lead in the Olympic preliminaries play-offs.
After the game, the Chinese women's football coach Jia Xiuquan praised the players' performance. He said that this lineup has played the expected effect. "I think players can win away games under pressure. Our offense still has bright spots, and the team deserves to win. "
"The pressure of this kind of competition is different from other competitions. It is more courageous than normal. This bravery is the courage to play by themselves. It should be said that they have achieved this throughout the game."
Data map: Chinese women's football coach Jia Xiuquan.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita
At 16:00 on the 13th, the Chinese women's football team will return to their home court in Suzhou to start the second round with the South Korean women's football team.
The winner of the double round will qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.
With a one-goal lead and two away goals, I believe that the Chinese women's football team can face it more calmly.
I hope that the women's football girls who return to the home court can continue to play their momentum, win the Tokyo Olympic Games tickets with a victory, and bloom in Suzhou at home!
(Author Bian Liqun)