Football News: Chinese women s football team has frequent defensive loopholes, Japan faces severe tests in the end of the East Asian Cup

July 14th, the Chinese women's football team defeated the Chinese Taipei women's football team 4-2. The Football News wrote an article that the Chinese women's football team performed well on the offensive end, but this game still did not change the defensive end frequently. The final round of the game against the Japanese team was a severe test for the Chinese women's football team's defense.

In the first round of the match, the Chinese women's football team drew 2-2 with South Korea, and Taipei, China lost to Japan 0-4. The Chinese women's football team competed 25 times with the Chinese Taipei women's football team in the International A-level Championship. The Chinese women's football team won all the games, scoring 83 goals and not losing a single goal. Previously, the Chinese women's football team maintained a complete victory in three games between the East Asian Cup, scoring 6 goals and conceding zero goals. Judging from the historical confrontation records, the Chinese women's football team has an overwhelming advantage. So before the game, no one would have thought that this game would have a thrilling process.

In this game, the Chinese women's football team rotated the starting lineup, retaining five people including Wu Haiyan, Wang Shuang, Chen Qiaozhu, Zhang Xin, Shao Ziqin, etc. Wang Yanwen and Shen Mengyu replaced Yao Wei and Liu Jing in the starting double midfielder position. No. 17 Zhijie replaced Jin Kun, who started in the last game, central defender Dou Jiaxing replaced Wang Linlin, right back position Huo Yuexin replaced Li Mengwen, and goalkeeper position replaced Pan Hongyan, who started in the last game with Zhu Yu.

Although the starting lineup was rotated relatively large, the Chinese women's football team also had strong offensive power. In the 8th and 16th minutes of the first half, Shao Ziqin and Shen Mengyu scored two goals in a row, quickly helping the Chinese women's football team to take the lead two goals. However, in the second half, the Chinese Taipei Women's Football Team scored two goals in a row to equalize the score.

Both of the Chinese women's football team's conceded goals appeared on the left side of the defensive end, which was related to the fact that the staff adjustments were made on the left side of the defensive end and the foothold was not stable. It also shows that although the defensive attention was emphasized, the Chinese women's football team's defensive system did not operate better. Before conceding the second goal in this game, there was a problem with the defenders in the middle and right sides of the defense. When facing the opponent's counterattack, the panic on the defensive end was visible to the naked eye. Compared with the two goals conceded by South Korea, the two goals conceded by the second game are actually more worthy of vigilance and summary.

After the score was tied, Milicic made consecutive substitutions on the offensive end. First, he replaced Zhang Linyan with Zhang Xin in the 73rd minute, and then replaced Shen Mengyu with Tang Jiali in the 79th minute. As the offensive end strength increased, the results finally came in the 82nd minute. Lu Yatong, who came on the bench, assisted Wang Yanwen, and the latter's world long-range shot turned the score to 3-2. In stoppage time, Zhang Linyan assisted Shao Ziqin to score a header, freezing the final score at 4-2. Shao Ziqin has scored 3 goals in two East Asian Cup matches.

After the game, Milicic said: "I think we control the game for most of the time. Although there are no exact statistics, I want to say that our possession rate is at least 75%. I am sure we have at least 20 shots and we control the situation, but in the 10 to 15 minutes of the second half, we did not show the mentality that an international team should have. We brought our opponents back to the rhythm of the game and made the final stage of the game more difficult than we should have."

Although we won the game without any danger, the process of the game was also hotly discussed by the media and fans after the game. In response to this, Wu Haiyan's post-match speech showed that the women's football girls did not lose confidence: "Our team is also a brand new team. In the stage of alternating new and old, I think it is normal for me to encounter such problems. I think we have dealt with it very well. I was equalized by the opponent while leading, but we still did not give up. We used our actions to show some of the things we usually train. I think this is a very good direction." Regarding the next game against the Japanese women's football team, Wu Haiyan said: "For me, I haven't played against the Japanese team for a long time. After today's game, we will welcome this opponent in a better state."