In the early morning of July 26, Beijing time, the women's football team of the Paris Olympics opened the group stage competition, with Spain, ranked first in the world, facing Japan.
The Spain women's football team inherited its men's style of passing and controlling, constantly running, changing positions to pull and break through the Japan team's defense, playing beautifully and aggressively; The Japan women's football team is quite tenacious, resilient defensively, quick counter-attacking and threatening, and is a team with distinctive technical characteristics. This match should be the pinnacle of women's football at this Olympic Games.
The most recent meeting between the two teams was in a match at last year's World Cup, when the Spain women's football team was kicked by the Japan women's football team for unknown reasons, and with the strength of the Spain women's football team, this result was still unexpected. After a year, the two teams meet again, as the Spain women's football team, of course, it is hoped to beat the Japan women's football team to take revenge, the players' confidence will be more, from the data, in the Japan women's football team is not lacking in highlights, the current threshold strength is still relatively sufficient.
Spain's women's football team has excelled on the international stage in recent years, not only winning Euro 2024, but also showing strong competitiveness in previous competitions. The team's offensive firepower is very fierce, and the technical aspect is also superb, and the cooperation with the players is also very tacit, and can show different skills in the game. Spain's women's football team participated in the Olympic Games for the first time, and they are even stronger in this Olympic Games, this team has Barça women's football as the core, the squad has seven players from Barça women's football, the core figure is 34-year-old Hermoso, she has played 114 times for the Spain national team and scored 56 goals. And the 30-year-old Putellas is the owner of the 2-time Golden Globe Awards, and he has a lot of experience in the game.
On the other hand, the visiting Japan women's football team has always been one of the strongest teams in the world women's football with its delicate foot skills and flexible combat skills.
The players are outstanding individual players who can step up in key moments and play key goals and defence for the team. At the beginning of the game, Athena · Del · Castillo shot and was saved by the goalkeeper, Patricia · Giarro fouled, Minami Tanaka was fouled, Aoba Fujino free kick ruled that the ball was not out of bounds, confirming that the goal was valid, and Japan led 1-0.
Aitana · Bonmati confirmed the goal by declaring the ball out of bounds, and Athena · Del ·Castillo assisted to Spain equalize 1-1.
Japan defended very strongly, and the goalkeeper saved the day several times. 1-1 at half-time, both on the field and from the data, the board duck men's and women's football teams played very strongly.
Entering the second half, Alexia · Putellas corner, Ona · Butler fouled, Minami Tanaka was fouled, Maika Hamano shot and was saved by the goalkeeper, Mariona · Caldenti shot and was blocked by the defenders, Olga · Carmona were substituted, Oyhane · Hernandez came on.
Mariona · Cardenti shot and was blocked by the defender, Mariona · Cardenti shot to determine that the ball was not out of bounds, confirming that the goal was valid, Aitana · Bonmati assisted, Spain won 2-1, and finally the game ended and Spain won for the first time.
In the other match, Canada vs. New Zealand, the Canada women's team won the last Olympic women's football team, they played 120 minutes against Sweden in the final, and they beat Sweden 3-2 in a penalty shootout to win Canada's first Olympic gold medal.
They only started competing at Beijing 2008, and at London 2012 and Rio 2016, Canada finished third and reached the semi-finals of three consecutive Olympic Games.
Although New Zealand women's football also has many players playing in Europe, and many play in the Premier League women's football and Serie A women's football, but more are women's football in other European leagues, and many players are from the Australian Super League women's football team, and there is a clear gap between the strength of the women's football team in Canada on paper.
The two sides have met many times before, and the Canada women's football team remains undefeated. This time the two teams met again, and the strong Canada women's football team is still the more worthy of being favored. The Canada women's football squad for this year's squad basically continues to use the winning teams of the last Olympic Games, including Carylin ·Sheridan of the San Diego Waves, main Buchanan and Ashley · Lawrence, and Aston Villa's Adriana · Leon, Portland Thorns Yanina · Becky in the front.
At the beginning of the game, Kate · Taylor fouled, Cadisha · Buchanan was fouled, McKenzie · Barry shot the ball out of bounds to confirm that the goal was valid, and Katie · Kitchen's assist to New Zealand 1-0 lead.
Adriana shot · León was saved by the goalkeeper, Adriana shot · León was blocked by the defender, Clo · Lakas shot the ball out of bounds to confirm the goal and validate the goal, Nichel · Prince assisted, and the two teams ended the first half 1-1.
Entering the second half, Evelyn · Wiens shot and ruled that the ball was not out of bounds, confirming that the goal was valid, Jesse assisted · Fleming, Canada 2-1 overtake, and also ended the game through a reversal, the two simultaneous games were still very dramatic, both conceded a goal first, equalized in the first half, and then reversed 2-1 in the second half.