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Facing a severe test. Photo by Xinhua News Agency
Canberra, April 21 (Xinhua)
In the context of the overall progress of international women's football, the 21st announced the results of the Tokyo Olympic Games grouping, it seems that there is no "on the sign" or "group of death", in fact, the top of each group of the fight for suspense, the road is not a straight path. Therefore, the Asian football world to return to the Olympic stage of our women's soccer team, is about to meet a more difficult challenge.
As a third-tier team, our women's soccer team is in Group F with the Netherlands, Brazil and Zambia. Comparing horizontally, host Japan, Canada and England in the context of the English Premier League are in Group E, and the United States women's soccer team, which has the most Olympic gold medals, Sweden, the previous runner-up, and Australia, which is ranked first by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), are in Group G, which are all powerful rivals. Therefore, there is no clear advantage or disadvantage for the 12 top intercontinental teams in the group division.
Facing a trio of rivals, China's women's soccer team will have its first showdown with Brazil at the Olympics. In the Rio Olympics, our team defeated the hosts 0:3. From the historical record, our team is at a disadvantage. In addition to the problem of "slow heat" that often occurs in the first game of a major competition, this group game may be the most difficult.
Despite the uncertainty of the outcome of their first match, our team is confident that Zambia, who are making their Olympic debut, will try to take all three points and be ready to face the Netherlands, who are the strongest team in the group stage.
The Dutch women's soccer team has made significant progress in recent years. at the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada, our team had overwhelmed their opponents with 27:8 shots on goal, but by the time the 2019 World Cup rolled around, the Dutch team set a new team record and ended up as runners-up.
In this matchup, our team is slightly behind the Netherlands in terms of ranking and record, but has more experience in the Olympics and a psychological advantage.
According to the rules, the top two and the two best third-place finishers in each group advance to the last eight. Although the overall strength of our team is not as good as that of the Netherlands and Brazil, the cohesion, tactical execution and psychological resistance sharpened in the two rounds of the Olympic Preliminary Round play-offs make them confident and capable of storming their way out of the group.
Since winning the silver medal at the 1996 Olympics, China's women's soccer team has experienced a downturn, and advancing to the top eight in recent Olympics has been the best performance.
In the rapid development of international women's soccer, our team has managed to qualify under the heavy pressure of the Olympic Qualifying Tournament, and it has been a great progress to participate in consecutive tournaments to allow the players to continue to train and grow.
Unlike the previous Olympics, all the participating teams are affected to different degrees by the epidemic, which indicates that clinical performance and mentality may be more critical than ever. Therefore, in the stage of the girls to fight, the outside world should give them more support to help them remove the psychological baggage, focus on the game, show a new generation of "rose" style.
