Only a week ago, China's women's soccer team successfully advanced to the Tokyo Olympics after a 120-minute battle at the Gusu Arena, where they drew 2-2 and finally beat the South Korean women's soccer team by a total score of 4-3! This is the sixth time that our women's soccer team has advanced to the Olympic Games, and the joy of victory is hard to express. However, while celebrating, we should also see that the women's soccer team still has a lot of challenges on the defensive end, and with the countdown to the Olympics approaching 100 days, coach Jia Xiuquan urgently needs to make adjustments to the lineup.
Although the total score of 4-3 victory, but in the two games, the women's soccer team lost a total of 3 goals, the defensive end of the problem can not be ignored. Especially in the center back position, Wu Haiyan's importance to our women's soccer team is self-evident. Despite being only 28 years old, she has become the absolute core of the team's backline, and her presence or absence makes a world of difference to the team's defense. In addition, in the left back position, coach Jia Xiuquan is still looking for a suitable match, in the two games against the South Korean women's football team, whether it is Luo Guiping or Li Mengwen, in the offensive end have failed to bring too much help to the team, our team's attack is too reliant on the right side of the road, if the Olympic Games, the left side of the attack is still difficult to open up the opponents of the defensive pressure will be greatly reduced.
Zhai Qingwei is an offensive and defensive defender, and her ability to assist on the left back is one of the best in the country, so she can open up breakthroughs on the left side of the field for our women's soccer team. If both sides can play to their strengths, they will be more threatening on the offensive end.
The two major defensive problems that our women's soccer team needs to solve urgently are the absence of Wu Haiyan and the lack of offense on the left side of the field.
In the first round match against South Korea, the backline consisted of Luo Guiping, Wu Haiyan, Wang Xiaoxu and Lou Jiahui. Luo Guiping and Wang Xiaoxue were slightly nervous in the first match, but with the encouragement of Wu Haiyan, they gradually found their form.
In the second match, due to Wu Haiyan's suspension for accumulating yellow cards, Coach Jia Xiuquan had to rotate and reorganize the backline, with Luo Guiping coming into the middle to partner Wang Xiaoxue in the center back, and Li Mengwen making her debut in the left back position.
In the second match, our women's soccer team's back line had problems. First of all, Wang Xiao Xue and Luo Gui Ping were the first time to play together as center backs, and they lacked tacit understanding with each other, and they were a little bit confused in the competition. Without Wu Haiyan, the core of the defense, the back line looked a bit chaotic and almost lost the ball in the penalty area many times, but luck was on the side of our women's soccer team, and eventually succeeded in solving the crisis.
Wu Haiyan and Lin Yuping have a higher degree of tacit understanding and better familiarity between them.
Lin Yuping is expected to be Wu Haiyan's partner of choice.
The center back position is relatively stable, but Coach Jia Xiuquan still has some thinking to do when it comes to the two side back positions. First, let's look at the left back.
There are numerous left back options among the current players, including Zhai Qingwei, Liu Sanshan, Chen Qiaozhu, Luo Guiping and Li Mengwen. Among them, Luo Guiping and Li Mengwen both play as right backs, starting once in each of the two matches against the South Korean women's soccer team. Liu Sanshan has not been on the training list and is basically out of the Olympics, while Chen Qiaozhu and Zhai Qingwei have been training with the team. In the two games against the South Korean women's football team, Luo Guiping and Li Mengwen each started once, the two in the defensive end of the dedicated, but in the offensive end of the contribution is not much, resulting in China's women's football team's left side of the attack almost paralyzed.
From the past Olympic Games lineup equipment, the goalkeeper and striker position is relatively fixed, the defender with a maximum of seven people, basically three center backs, left and right backs of two people each configuration. In the left back position, Luo Guiping will occupy a place, she is a versatile player in the back line, she can play two side backs, can also play center back, as a jack of all trades in the defense line, Luo Guiping basically able to get a ticket to the Tokyo Olympics. The other spot will be between Zhai Qingwei and Li Mengwen. Chen Qiaozhu, as a reserve, she will definitely get a place in the next Olympics. Liu Sugisaki Nagasaki has no chance to train and is basically out of the Olympics.
Zhai Qingwei and Li Mengwen are teammates in the national team, and both of them play as left and right backs respectively in their clubs, Zhai Qingwei on the left and Li Mengwen on the right. In the second round of the match against Korea, Wu Haiyan was suspended, Luo Guiping filled in at center back, and Zhai Qingwei entered the roster, expecting her to start in the starting lineup, after all, Zhai was the starting left back in all three matches of last year's Olympic qualifying tournament. However, Jia Xiuquan eventually chose to play Li Mengwen! Li Mengwen can play left and right, which is her strength, but she doesn't have much to offer on the attacking end, and it could be that the team had 2 away goals in the second match, which Coach Jia Xiuquan purposely arranged! Before that, Li Mengwen had a good offensive ability on the right side! Zhai Qingwei, on the other hand, is an offensive and defensive side defender, and in last year's match against Thailand Women's Soccer, gave Li Ying a precise guidance kick, showing extraordinary assisting ability! Both have some offensive ability, with Zhai Qingwei being a bit more skilled at left back.
In the right back position, Lou Jiahui, who is still unstoppable on the field despite having become the head coach of Henan Jianye Women's Football Team, is the first choice for the right back, and in the substitute position, Li Mengwen is in the first position.
When analyzed together, the linebacker position has six guys who are basically locks for a spot in the Tokyo Olympics! Respectively:
Wu Haiyan, Wang Xiaoxue, Lin Yuping, Luo Guiping, Li Mengwen, Lou Jiahui
If Coach Jia Xiuquan wants to bring in 7 defenders, then Zhai Qingwei has a higher probability of being selected! Her extraordinary assisting ability can activate the offense on the left side of our women's soccer team!
If Wu Haiyan suffers an injury or suspension, Lou Jiahui, as a veteran, should play a leading role in the backline to stabilize it! Our women's soccer team needs veteran players such as Wu Haiyan and Lou Jiahui to act as role models and inspire the younger players to be bold in the game and stabilize the backline! In the left back position, both Luo Guiping and Li Mengwen need to give the team enough support in the offense!
As the Tokyo Olympics draws nearer and nearer, tomorrow's draw will take place, and we hope that the Roses will get a "good draw" and that our women's soccer team will do well again at the Olympics!
