After scoring goals in two consecutive games and helping the Chinese women’s football team to advance to the Olympic qualifier, striker Tang Glade said that the match against Australia was a greater test for the team’s physical fitness, and everyone tried to play the best.
Xinhua News Agency, Sydney, February 10 (Reporter Yue Dongxing Hao Yalin) after scoring two consecutive games to help the Chinese women’s football team advance to the Olympic qualifier, striker Tang said after the 10th Glade, the next game against Australia will be a greater test of the team’s physical fitness. Everyone will hurry up to adjust the state and strive to play the best state.
On the same day, in Group B of the women’s football qualifier in the Asian region of Tokyo Olympic Games, Tang made the first record Glade header, helping Chinese women beat the Chinese Taipei team 5:0, in advance, he will qualify and advance to the additional match with the host Australia team. On the 13th, the Chinese team will compete with the Australian team for the group’s first place.
“I think it is better for everyone to continue such a victory under difficult circumstances.” The 24-year-old striker said after the game.
Looking back on the process of the game, she said that the whole team was very good at implementing the deployment of head coach Jia Xiuquan and making a good start was the key to winning. However, after the physical condition of the team was interrupted due to isolation, it has not been adjusted to the best.
“In the case of no systematic training for a long time, in fact, I think the third game is a bigger test for our physical fitness, because after all, the opponent is stronger than the previous two games, (In the competition) there must be a lot of hard work. So we will hurry up before the third game, do the recovery of these two days, and then prepare for the game.”
In the two group matches, the 442-formation Chinese women’s football team was dominated. Zhang Xin and Li Ying played avant-garde in the front court. Wang Shanshan and Tang Glade worked together. The four of them sometimes changed positions in the attack. In the first 6:1 victory in Thailand, the four of them arranged all the goals. In the 10-day game, Tang Glade’s header, Wu Haiyan’s shooting, Wang Shanshan’s two-time Jiangong and Li Ying’s single-knife broke the door, helping the Chinese team lead by 5:0 before the end of half-time, lay the victory.
“Because when we are training, the coach will say that in fact, the positions of the first four people are very flexible, because we all have the ability to play side roads and forward, this is relatively flexible for us to attack, but it must be very difficult for us to defend,” Tang Glade said.
As early as the 2015 World Cup, Tang, who was only 20 years old at that time, was elected to the national team Glade and performed well as a strange soldier in the World Cup. But over the following years, this “Star of Hope” once faded out of the national team. In 2019, she returned to the national team with the stable performance of the Jiangsu women’s football team in the league.
Looking back on this journey, she said, “the psychology is relatively mature compared with before, because it has experienced a lot in four years. To have the opportunity to prove yourself in this event (the Olympic preliminary) is to prove that the Chinese team is OK. I think it is a very good thing.”