England Women's Football
In the just-concluded
UEFA Women's Cup
In it, the women's soccer team defeated eight-time winners Germany by a narrow 2-1 margin to lift the trophy at the top of Europe for the first time.
Witnessing this duel, the most intuitive feeling is: today's European women's football strength is extraordinary, compared with the Asian women's football, at least a decade ahead.
Dating back six months to the
Asian Women's Cup
In the final, the performance of the two teams is like two different sports. From the rate of offense and defense conversion, to the intensity of physical confrontation, to the use of technology and tactics, European women's football has been Asian women's football under the body.
England's first goal was scored in just three passes and took just 13 seconds, from the launch of the counterattack at the back of the field to Toon's precise finish.
Germany's equalizing goal was just as good, taking six passes and 21 seconds to go from a counterattack at the back of the net to Maguire's cushion shot in front of the goal.
Such swift counterattacks, such advanced playing styles, such fluent attacks, such tacit coordination, such intense confrontations, it was so amazing that it was speechless.
Many people are beginning to imagine that if the Chinese women's soccer team is in the
World Cup
Can the physicality hold up until half time when you meet these two powerhouses on the stage? Can the opposition withstand the pressure? How many times will the goal be penetrated?
The tactical style of European women's soccer has become increasingly masculine, not only against the Chinese women's soccer team, but even against the
national soccer team
And by what score do you think we will lose again?