On the 21st, the results of the Tokyo Olympics soccer tournament grouping were announced, our women's soccer team was lucky to be divided into Group F, with the Netherlands, Brazil and Zambia on the same stage. In the face of this grouping, head coach Jia Xiuquan said: "Our women's soccer team will not be overly concerned about the signing of the good and bad, because no matter who the opponents are, we can only fight for every opportunity to advance through hard work."
Dutch women's soccer rising fast
This year's Tokyo Olympics women's soccer team has 12 teams, divided into three groups, the top two in each group and the best third place to advance to the final eight. The strong rival of our women's soccer team is the European champion Dutch women's soccer team, the Netherlands team has made rapid progress in recent years, in 2009 it killed the semifinals of the Women's European Cup, the first women's international cup in 2015 and entered the round of 16. 2017 Women's European Cup beat Denmark to win the championship, 2018 won the Algarve Cup, 2019 Women's International Cup 6 consecutive victories into the finals, only to be runner-up due to the loss of the United States.
The Dutch women's soccer team is currently ranked third in the international rankings, and has played five warm-up matches so far in the past year. Although it lost to the United States and Spain by 0-2 and 0-1 respectively, it won against Germany by 2-1 and swept the Australian women's soccer team by 5-0 a week ago, so it is in good shape, and its overall strength is still higher than that of China's women's soccer team. More than 2/3 of the Dutch women's soccer team's international players play in England, Spain, Germany, France and other leagues, and the last time they played against China's women's soccer team was in the 2015 Women's International Cup, when they lost 0-1 in the group stage. But since then, the Dutch women's soccer team has made remarkable progress and has become a first-class international team. The Dutch women's soccer team plays a 4231 or 433 formation, with 24-year-old center forward Mademar playing for English Premier League powerhouse Arsenal, scoring more than 20 goals in three consecutive seasons, and is also the current Golden Boot in the national team. Together with the front waist van der Donk and Hood, the attacking force is very strong, the group out of the favorite.
Brazilian women's soccer has performed reasonably well in recent years, although not as good as Marta's peak period to compete for the championship strength, but is still a first-class international team.2016 Rio Olympics, host Brazil's first game to 3-0 victory over China's women's soccer team, but ultimately only ranked fourth. After that, the Brazilian women's soccer team experienced a new old, 2017 and 2019 Yongchuan Invitational Tournament, our women's soccer team had two draws with the Brazilian women's soccer team, not counting the unfamiliar opponent. Last March's French four-nation tournament, the Brazilian women's soccer team had a 0-0 draw with the Dutch women's soccer team and a 0-1 loss to the French women's soccer team.In February's U.S. Invitational Tournament Brazil also had a 0-2 defeat against the United States and a 0-2 defeat against Canada, which can be seen in the strength of not bad. It is worth mentioning that the Brazilian women's soccer team has a defender Raffaele and striker Sanerato playing in the women's league in China, and the 35-year-old veteran Marta will lead the team as captain together with fellow scorer Cristiane.
As for the Zambian women's soccer team, which is participating in the Olympic Games for the first time, the captain Banda also plays in our women's soccer league, and the team's strength can only be second-rate in Africa, not as good as that of South Africa and Nigeria, and the Zambian women's soccer team seems to be a bit mysterious due to the fact that it seldom plays with the national teams outside of Africa. At the end of last year, Zambia beat Chilean women's soccer team by 2-1, but in April, they lost to South Africa by 1-3. The goal of our women's soccer team should be to get all 3 points from Zambia's women's soccer team and get enough goal difference.
We need to face up to our problems.
After the Tokyo Olympics women's soccer draw, the reporter first contacted the head coach of the women's soccer team Jia Xiuquan. Regarding the grouping situation, Jia Xiuquan said, "The 12 teams that can enter the main round of the Olympic Games are not very different in strength, so we won't pay too much attention to the good or bad signings within the women's soccer team. In fact, they are almost the same, because no matter who we face, we can only fight for every chance to advance." Next, the women's soccer team will start the preparation plan for the Olympic Games, and do a good job of collecting information about the opponents and analyzing their playing style. Coach Jia Xiuquan said that this period of time will remind the women's soccer players, do not be too much by the public opinion of the group situation analysis of the guidance, there is no need to preconceived ideas, the opportunity is actually equal for us, depending on the preparatory work, but also to look at the field of play.
And our women's soccer team in this period of time the most need to deal with, is the clinical play is far less than the high level of training, the need for more clinical resilience of the players to come forward.
Although Jia Xiuquan, as the head coach, still insists on his goal of reaching the final of the tournament, it is undeniable that the women's soccer team's road to the final will be quite difficult. The first point is that our women's soccer team's journey to the line seems to be magnificent, but in fact the crisis, whether it is to face the same into the main round of the Australia, or by our elimination of the South Korean women's soccer team, it can be said that there is no particularly obvious advantage to speak of. With the Netherlands women's football, Brazilian women's football group, the strength of the women's football is not a great chance of winning, and even do not rule out a 1 win and 2 losses, which will be more unfavorable to the women's football girls to compete for the best results of the two third-place will be more unfavorable.
No matter what, however, the women's soccer team is going to have to break the ice and fight with their backs against the wall. As long as they can play a smoother overall game than they did at the International Cup in France and show the fans tangible improvement, they should be satisfied.
