Chinese women's football team No. 23 Lu Jiayu (red) is attacking.
Yesterday afternoon, the Chinese and South Korean women's football teams, who were preparing for the U20 Women's Asian Cup in Xiamen, played an open match at the Haicang Sports Center, and the Chinese U20 women's football team drew with South Korea in the last minute of stoppage time. So far, the Chinese and South Korean teams have ended a week-long training match in Xiamen, and the Chinese U20 women's football team won 2-0 in the internal teaching match on January 25.
In the past year, the Chinese U20 women's football team has conducted a total of 9 training camps, and the main task of the training camp is to prepare for the U20 Women's Asian Cup in Uzbekistan in March this year, and strive to advance to the semi-finals and qualify for the U20 Women's World Cup held in Colombia from August 31 to September 22 this year.
This time, the Chinese and South Korean teams came to Xiamen for training and competition, and chose Haicang Sports Center. In 2016, Gao Hongbo led the national football team to train here. In 2019, the U19 Four Nations Women's Invitational Tournament was also held here.
In yesterday's game, the Chinese women's football team conceded 1 goal in the 11th minute of the first half because of Guo Nan's rise to the top, allowing the opponent to burst into the penalty area. In the fourth minute of stoppage time in the second half, in the last 1 minute, the Chinese team got a corner kick opportunity, and Lu Jiayu made a contribution with a header in the shouts of the fans at the scene to equalize the score. It is worth mentioning that Lu Jiayu scored in both games against South Korea.
After the game, the two teams also had a penalty competition that had nothing to do with the result of the friendly match, and in the end, the Chinese team was superior.
After the game, Wang Jun, the coach of the Chinese team, said that the invitation of the South Korean team to Xiamen for training and competition was a great gain and value. At present, the Chinese team's preparation for the Asian Cup has reached 670 percent. He revealed that there will be a training camp in Chengdu after the Spring Festival, when the 23-man Asian Cup roster will be finalized. South Korea coach Park Yoon-jeong thanked China for the invitation, saying that the two matches have accumulated valuable experience for the Korean team, which has reached 50% preparation for the Asian Cup and will prepare for the Asian Cup at its own pace.
Text: Xiamen ** reporter Lu Pengyu).