Chinese women s football team beats Chinese Taipei 4-2, stagnation in level and opponents progress triggers crisis

As the East Asian Cup continues, the Chinese women's football team also ushered in the second round of the match against the Chinese Taipei team. Against the backdrop of a series of losses in China's men's football team, this women's football match is particularly important. Compared with men's football matches, the competition intensity of the East Asian Cup women's football match is relatively high. China, South Korea and Chinese Taipei teams attach great importance to this and all sent out close to the best team. Although the Japanese women's football team has failed to send out the strongest lineup because many players have competed in the European League, their overall strength is still better than China, South Korea and China's Taipei.

In the last match with the South Korean team, the Chinese women's football team shook hands 2-2 and made peace, which seemed quite regretful that they failed to win the game as they wished. In this game against Taipei, China, the starting lineup of the Chinese team includes Wang Yanwen, Shao Ziqin, Huo Yuexin, Zhijie, Zhang Xin, Shen Mengyu, Dou Jiaxing, Chen Qiaozhu, Wu Haiyan, Wang Shuang and Pan Hongyan. The overall structure is relatively young, with an average age of only 25.7 years old. However, the joining of experienced veterans such as Wang Shuang and Zhang Xin has enhanced the team's practical experience and ability to deal with competitions. Therefore, the Chinese women's football team achieved good suppression on the slightly weak Chinese Taipei team at the beginning.

The entire game was basically one-sided. Unlike men's football team, professional women's football team has not been widely promoted worldwide, and relatively few Asian countries have professional women's football teams. Although Taipei, China is one of the few regions with professional women's football team, its overall strength is generally weak due to its short development time and its overall strength, which is almost irresistible compared to the Chinese team. As expected, the Chinese team quickly took the lead 2-0 about 15 minutes into the game, with Shao Ziqin and Shen Mengyu scoring two goals respectively. However, the Chinese team has since fallen into a bottleneck on the offensive end, and despite creating many threats, it has failed to find a chance to score again.

According to the rules of football, frequent missed opportunities are often punished, so in the second half, in the 55th and 61st minutes, the Chinese Taipei team scored two consecutive goals, successfully tying the score to 2-2. This result made the fans on the scene very angry. However, in the final stage of the game, Wang Yanwen and Shao Ziqin scored goals one after another, regaining the lead for the Chinese women's football team and securing the victory. But such a victory did not satisfy the fans.

With witnessing the sluggish men's football team, domestic fans' emotions gradually tend to be helpless, and the Chinese women's football team today seems to be developing towards such a situation. In the past seven years, the Chinese women's football team has never been broken by the Chinese Taipei team in six games, but this East Asian Cup has unexpectedly lost two goals, which is also the only two goals in Taipei, China. Although the women's football team's fighting spirit is still there, the overall level is obviously downward, and it is likely that it will even stagnate, while other teams are constantly catching up.