On the 22nd, Beijing time, the results of the 2023 Women's World Cup group draw were officially announced. The Chinese women's football team fell into Group D, where the European Cup champion England team belonged.

　　In general, the Chinese women's football team is relatively average, being trapped in the top two teams in Europe, which brings great challenges to the line.

Group draw results.

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The first battle is the encounter

　　At the drawing ceremony, the Chinese women's football team, which was the second-tier team, fell into Group D where the first-tier team, England, was located.

From the perspective of the 8 teams in the first pot, the Chinese team's signing is quite satisfactory.

The rival England team won the European Cup not long ago, ranking fourth in the world.

　　In the third team draw, the Danish team fell into the Chinese team group, which is the highest ranked team in the world, ranking 18th, very close to the Chinese women's football team, which ranks 15th in the world.

　　The last opponent of the Chinese women's football team in the same group has not yet been determined. It will be generated from Group B of the World Qualifiers play-offs. The winner between Senegal, Haiti and Chile will take the last train of the World Cup.

　　From the perspective of preparations, the uncertainty of the opponent will also bring adverse effects. After all, the play-offs will be held in February next year, and it is impossible to conduct targeted research at this stage.

For the Chinese women's football team, this opponent is very important. If you want to qualify for the group, you must take all three points from the opponent.

　　Of course, the most crucial battle in the group stage is the direct dialogue with Denmark.

In view of the strong upward momentum of the English women's football team to lock in a qualifying place is almost no suspense, so the result of the match between the Chinese team and the Danish team will largely determine the ownership of another qualifying place.

　　According to the schedule, the first match of China's Women's World Cup is the encounter with Denmark, and then against the winner of the play-offs, and the final match against England, which has a high probability of qualifying.

　　Therefore, in the first battle with the Denmark team, at least we must be invincible, so that we can face the last two key battles with a relatively calm mentality.

The Chinese women's football team won the Asian Cup at the beginning of the year.

Can you continue to create surprises?

　　At the Asian Cup at the beginning of this year, Shui Qingxia led the Chinese women's football team back to the top of Asia after 16 years without taking over the team for a long time, creating countless surprises for fans.

In the Women's World Cup in more than half a year, can the clanging roses continue to create surprises?

　　Judging from the performance of the last two World Cups, the downward trend of Chinese women's football is more obvious.

　　In the 2015 Women's World Cup, the Chinese team successfully qualified from the group stage with 0:1 Canada, 1:0 Netherlands and 2:2 New Zealand.

After entering the knockout round, the Chinese women's football team defeated Cameroon 1:0, and lost 0:1 to the United States in the quarter-finals, stopping in the top 8.

　　In the last 2019 France Women's World Cup, the Chinese women's football team stopped in the top 16.

In the first game of the group stage, Germany won 0:1, defeated South Africa 1:0 in the second game, and drew with Spain 0:0 in the final game.

In the 1/8 finals, the Chinese team lost 0:2 to Italy.

It is worth mentioning that when facing European teams, the Chinese women's football game scene is very passive.

　　This is also in line with the current development trend of women's football in the world. With the strong rise of European teams, the Chinese women's football team is facing more and more challenges in international competitions.

At the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese women's football team lost 2:8 to the Netherlands.

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to be further upgraded

　　The most recent official match of the Chinese women's football team can be traced back to the East Asia Cup at the end of July. With the old and the new, the Chinese team 2:0 Chinese Taipei Women's Football, 1:1 Korean Women's Football, and 0:0 Japanese Women's Football.

　　Not long ago, the Chinese women's football team also went to the United States for training, and played 9 warm-up matches with local teams, achieving 3 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses, including 4 games against the 15-17-year-old men's football team. the match of.

In this way, we seek to improve the personal ability of female football players in strong physical confrontation and conversion speed.

　　Especially young international players like Wan Jiayao, Wang Linlin, He Zhaofen, Yan Qi, Jin Kun, etc. have also received further training and training, providing more choices for the World Cup.

　　In the remaining half-year preparation period, the Chinese women's football team will further polish and improve their opponents in the group stage.

　　According to the current trend of rapid development of women's football in the world, it can be said that there is no advance or retreat.

Looking forward to the clanging roses to face the difficulties and continue to bring surprises!

(Reporter Bian Liqun)