Nov. 16 - After finishing as runners-up in the Women's Super League for the third consecutive season, Yangzi Evening News released a paper commenting on the reasons why Jiangsu women's soccer has performed well this season.
On November 15, in the 17th round of the 2022 Women's Super League season, Jiangsu Wuxi Women's Soccer Team defeated Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic Team 1-0 to win this season's Women's Super League Runner-Up in the early rounds with a record of 11 wins, 3 draws, 3 losses, and 36 points, which is six points higher than the third-ranked Beijing Women's Soccer Team. This is the third consecutive season that Jiangsu Women's Soccer Team has been runner-up in the Women's Super League, a Women's Super Runner-Up that is even more valuable with many of the team's national players transferring and studying abroad this season.
From last season to the beginning of this season, a total of Ma Jun, Peng Shimeng, Yao Lingwei, Zhai Qingwei, Wang Xiaoxue "national" Jiangsu women's football core players transfer resume; at the same time, Jiangsu women's football also actively promote the national team players to study abroad. In the middle of the season, with Li Mengwen joining the French Ligue 1 Paris Saint-Germain, Wu Chengshu joining the Australian A League Canberra United, Jiangsu Women's Football 7 core players left the team.
It is gratifying to see that the younger generation of players will soon be taken away from the "Jiangsu Women's Football" flag. This season, the average age of the Jiangsu women's soccer team is only 21.4 years old, but the young players do not shy away from the field, they played a beautiful soccer, beat one after another strong opponent.
At the beginning of this year, the Jiangsu women's soccer team meritorious coach Jieslin left, the team hired Chen Wanting as the new coach. Her good use of people is also the main reason for the Jiangsu women's soccer team to set off a "youthful storm". At the beginning of her tenure, Chen Wanting watched all the matches of Jiangsu women's soccer team in the past two years, remembered every player, and initially understood their respective technical characteristics; in the process of women's Super League, Chen Wanting knows people and makes good use of them, and rotates reasonably intensively to maintain the team's fighting strength to the maximum extent, and gives most of the young players the opportunity to play.
This season, Jiangsu women's soccer team didn't set out too clear goals at the beginning of the season themselves setting the top five in the league. In the first half of the season in 10 league games, Jiangsu women's soccer team played a very modern soccer. She was robbed at a high level and pressed the offense as a whole. In the end, she scored 22 points and was temporarily ranked second. Her good results also surprised Chen Wanting. Chen Wanting also expected that in the second half of the season, teams would study the playing style of Jiangsu Women's Soccer in depth and it might be difficult to keep the second place. However, the playing temperament of Jiangsu women's soccer team has been formed. After the second half of the season, a wave of three consecutive victories stabilized the situation until they beat Shaanxi in the current round, ensuring that she was the runner-up in the league.
In a previous interview, Chen Wanting also hoped to lead Jiangsu women's soccer team to win the league title again in 2-3 years: "I think the goal should be set step by step because it is impossible to ascend to the sky step by step. If we want to win the title, we may need 2 to 3 years and then have different preparation programs to turn the team into a championship team. But in the short term, we have young players with character and room for development. I hope I can help them make more progress and more of them have a chance to be selected for the national team."
