The Chinese women's football team missed the Paris Olympics
On the evening of February 28, Beijing time, the third stage of the women's football Asian qualifiers for the 2024 Paris Olympics began, and a key match was played by the Japanese women's football team against the North Korean women's football team. In the end, the Japanese women's football team defeated the North Korean women's football team 2-1, advanced with a total score of 2-1, and joined hands with the Australian women's football team to lock in the qualification for the Olympic Games and represent the Asian region.
In the second stage, the North Korean women's football team and the Japanese women's football team were the top players in the group, and the Chinese women's football team and the South Korean women's football team, which were in the same group as the North Korean women's football team, both drew and went out, and now they are reduced to spectators.
In last year's Asian Games, the Japanese women's football team defeated the North Korean women's football team 4-1 in the final and successfully won the championship. This time they met again, and the North Korean women's football team naturally hoped to complete revenge, but the two sides drew 0-0 in the first leg, allowing the suspense to continue to the second leg.
In this game, the Japanese women's football team played at home, and the advantage was very obvious, with a number of data on ball possession, shots, and shots on target higher than that of the North Korean women's football team. In the 25th minute of the first half, the Japanese women's football team relied on Takahashi's goal to take a 1-0 lead, after which the North Korean women's football team was close to breaking the goal and appealed to the referee that the ball crossed the goal line, but the referee did not say that the North Korean women's football team missed the equalizer and suffered a goal-line case.
In the second half, the North Korean women's football team fought back wildly, and it was difficult to threaten the Japanese women's football team's back line because of the overall strength. In the 76th minute, Risa Shimizu made a cross after passing the defense and assisted Aoba Fujino to score with a header to help the Japanese women's football team expand the score 2-0.
Faced with the desperate situation of falling behind by 2 goals, the North Korean women's football team did not give up. In the 81st minute, Kim Hye-young inserted a small angle into the penalty area to score a goal to help the North Korean women's football team pull back a city 1-2, but in the end it failed to achieve a comeback, and was eliminated with a total score of 1-2 and missed the Olympic Games.
For the Japanese women's football team, this is the sixth time in the team's history that they have qualified for the Olympic finals, with their best result being a runner-up finish in 2012.
In another game that ended earlier, the Australian women's football team won 10-0 at home, plus a 3-0 victory in the first leg, so that the total score was 13-0 to eliminate the Uzbekistan women's football team, and easily won the Olympic ticket, which is also the fifth time in the history of the Australian women's football team to advance to the Olympic finals, and it is also the third consecutive competition.
Our Chinese women's football team was determined to be out of the second stage of the qualifiers in advance, when it was in the same group as the North Korean women's football team, the South Korean women's football team, and the Thai women's football team, the Chinese women's football team won 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss, and accumulated 4 points and was eliminated together with the South Korean women's football team, and missed the Paris Olympics finals in advance.
Since the establishment of the women's football program in the 1996 Olympic Games, the Chinese women's football team has been absent again after 12 years after the 2012 London Olympics.