The 2024 U20 Women's Asian Cup continues in Uzbekistan with a total of eight teams participating, with the Chinese women's football team being placed in the group of death, along with Japan, North Korea and Vietnam. In the first round, the Chinese women's football team drew with the North Korean women's football team after falling behind by one goal, and the Japanese women's football team beat the Vietnamese women's football team with a score of 10-0. At 19 o'clock tonight, the Chinese women's football team will face the Japanese women's football team, which is the strongest opponent in the group stage.
The latest standings of the Chinese women's football team in Group B, the Japanese women's football team ranks first in the group with 3 points, the Chinese women's football team and the North Korean women's football team rank 2nd and 3rd with 1 point, and the Vietnamese women's football team ranks at the bottom with 0 points. The matchup situation in the second round is that the Chinese women's football team vs the Japanese women's football team, and the North Korean women's football team vs the Vietnamese women's football team. Judging from the performance in the first round, the Japanese women's football team will lock in a group to qualify, and the other place will be produced between the Chinese women's football team and the North Korean women's football team, and the Vietnamese women's football team will be reduced to a point boy.
The Chinese women's football team is unlucky, the Japanese women's football team and the North Korean women's football team in the same group are the champions and runners-up of the last U20 Women's Asian Cup, of which the Japanese women's football team won the U20 Women's Asian Cup 6 times, is the team with the most championships, and the North Korean women's football team is a mysterious division, tenacious style, has been suppressing the Chinese women's football team in recent years, in last year's Paris Olympics qualifiers, the Chinese women's national football team lost 1-2 to the North Korean women's football team, and finally failed to qualify for the Paris Olympics. Judging by the rules, the top two teams in the group will qualify for the 2024 U20 Women's World Cup.
The Chinese women's football team played the North Korean women's football team for the first time, in terms of ball possession, the number of shots on goal and the number of shots on target, the Chinese women's football team was down, and the first half was barely tied with the North Korean women's football team, but in the second half, the North Korean women's football team continued to press, Jin Cheng's net long-range shot opened the scoring, the Chinese women's football team fell behind, before the end, Huo Yuexin's long-distance hanging shot into the world wave scored an equalizer and grabbed a point.
In another match in the first round, the Japanese women's football team played against the Vietnamese women's football team, and the Japanese women's football team had an overwhelming advantage in the whole game, bombing wildly, and bloodied the Vietnamese women's football team with a score of 10-0, showing the domineering spirit of the 6 champions. The Japanese women's football team participating in this U20 Women's Asian Cup is not the strongest team in Japan, because more than 4 U20 women's football players have been transferred to the Japanese national team to participate in the senior competition, even so, the Japanese women's football team is still more than one notch higher than other countries of the same age, which shows how strong the talent pool of the Japanese women's football team is.
The Chinese women's football team's main striker Qiao Ruiqi missed the U20 Women's Asian Cup because of injury, which has a greater impact on the Chinese women's football team, the gap between the Chinese women's football team and the Japanese women's football team is obvious, for the Chinese women's football team, this game against the Japanese women's football team can grab points is victory, and then in the final round against the weakest Vietnamese women's football team in the group, the net may get more goal difference, so that the accumulation of 5 points, it is possible to beat the North Korean women's football team to win the right to qualify from the group.
In tonight's Sino-Japanese battle, the Chinese women's football team will definitely play defensive counterattack tactics, only based on defense, set up a good defensive line, and wait for the opportunity to counterattack, it is possible to grab points. Of course, there are also fans who believe that there is no need to be timid in the season, and it is not the first loyalty of competitive sports to consider defeat before fighting, and it should be left to death and then lived, so as to be able to move forward on the field and strive for victory. Tonight, fans can pay attention to the wonderful performance of the Chinese women's football team U20 girls.