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Women's Asian Cup general discussion thread

HonestSpursFan said:
IT'S ASIAN CUP DAY LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!!!!
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Women's Asian Cup kicking off with ten straight days of wall-to-wall football, starting with the Matildas playing the Philippines on opening day at Optus Stadium, before South Korea face Iran tomorrow and two games a day when the group stage is in full swing from Tuesday onwards until the following week.
 
libelous said:
I have just found out that Jada Whyman has been ruled out of the squad due to a knee injury. If the rumours are true that Arnold is carrying an injury then that leaves us with two inexperienced goalkeepers— heaven help us!
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Hopefully the rumours of Mackenzie Arnold carrying an injury are not true but even with her inexperience Chloe Lincoln still has some big game experience having been with the under-23 Matildas for the ASEAN Women's Championship, so we do at least have two keepers who have played in a major tournament before.
 
libelous said:
I worry that there aren’t any thrashings OF the Matildas especially by Japan, Korea (both) or China.
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I’m only really worried about Japan. Yes the others are good but our squad is clearly better than theirs. Japan however are the best team in Asia so we need home tournament vibes and great performances to win. We can do it but having only one international goalie is a worry. Our defence is quite good though.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
I’m only really worried about Japan. Yes the others are good but our squad is clearly better than theirs. Japan however are the best team in Asia so we need home tournament vibes and great performances to win. We can do it but having only one international goalie is a worry. Our defence is quite good though.
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I think Japan will be one of the favourites to go all the way given that they have one of the strongest playing lists with 16 out of the 26 players named currently at WSL sides, and likely they would have improved in leaps and bounds since the last time we faced them in the SheBelieves Cup under Nils Nielsen and Leah Blayney whereas we might have taken a step backwards.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
I think Japan will be one of the favourites to go all the way given that they have one of the strongest playing lists with 16 out of the 26 players named currently at WSL sides, and likely they would have improved in leaps and bounds since the last time we faced them in the SheBelieves Cup under Nils Nielsen and Leah Blayney whereas we might have taken a step backwards.
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The SheBelieves Cup was a disaster for us and we have taken several steps backwards since then.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
I’m only really worried about Japan. Yes the others are good but our squad is clearly better than theirs. Japan however are the best team in Asia so we need home tournament vibes and great performances to win. We can do it but having only one international goalie is a worry. Our defence is quite good though.
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I like your confidence.😉
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
I think Japan will be one of the favourites to go all the way given that they have one of the strongest playing lists with 16 out of the 26 players named currently at WSL sides, and likely they would have improved in leaps and bounds since the last time we faced them in the SheBelieves Cup under Nils Nielsen and Leah Blayney whereas we might have taken a step backwards.
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The one thing on our side is playing at home. Some will say we also have an easy group but let’s be honest, the chances of being in a group with China, Japan AND one of the Koreas was near zero. It’s the knockouts that will be hard and Japan will most likely face us in the semi assuming we win our group. Japan has a group consisting of Chinese Taipei, India and Vietnam, definitely the easiest group in the comp and they’ll flog all three of those without conceding.

libelous said:
I like your confidence.😉
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China have three players playing in Europe and two in Australia, the rest still play in China. Their European teams aren’t too good either: two at Dijon and one at Rangers, plus the two WSW girls from the A-League. South Korea is similar, most of their players now play in South Korea. They’ve clearly hit a turning point in their Golden Generation, with the Korean GOAT Ji So-yun (who played 124 league games for Chelsea and 171 for South Korea) now being 35 and playing at Suwon FC. They have got some youngsters though, such as Casey Phair from Angel City (aged 18, born in Anyang but raised in New Jersey, with 19 caps and four goals for South Korea) and Park Soo-jeong from AC Milan (aged 21 with just three caps for South Korea). I can see similarities between us and South Korea but overall we have the better squad, and South Korea are in a patch of average form (while they only won three games in 2025, against Chinese Taipei, India and Thailand, they’ve only lost four, but two of those were to the Matildas and the others were to Colombia and the Netherlands who beat them 5–0 in their last friendly before the Asian Cup).
 
HonestSpursFan said:
China have three players playing in Europe and two in Australia, the rest still play in China. Their European teams aren’t too good either: two at Dijon and one at Rangers, plus the two WSW girls from the A-League.
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China should be top two in group B along with North Korea but having said that they are the defending champions and probably have quite a strong squad that is capable of winning games for them including thrashing current A-League Women champions Central Coast Mariners as reports suggest, despite losing 8-0 to England last November.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
China should be top two in group B along with North Korea but having said that they are the defending champions and probably have quite a strong squad that is capable of winning games for them including thrashing current A-League Women champions Central Coast Mariners as reports suggest, despite losing 8-0 to England last November.
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Yeah of course they’ll be top two but A. I doubt Mariners woulda played their first team, B. the Tillies would also thrash an ALW team, and C. their squad isn’t as strong as one would think. Again most of their squad plays in China.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
China should be top two in group B along with North Korea but having said that they are the defending champions and probably have quite a strong squad that is capable of winning games for them including thrashing current A-League Women champions Central Coast Mariners as reports suggest, despite losing 8-0 to England last November.
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I wouldn’t put too much stock in them beating the Mariners in a warm up game, there was probably only two or three players from the Championship—winning team. As you quoted it was 3-1 at full time with the extra goals coming in an added 30 minutes which no doubt would have included squad players from both sides.
 
Anyone randomly decided to not watch the A-League today just to prep the hype for the Asian Cup? Or just me knowing that Sydney FC play shit against NZ teams?
 
HonestSpursFan said:
Yeah of course they’ll be top two but A. I doubt Mariners woulda played their first team, B. the Tillies would also thrash an ALW team, and C. their squad isn’t as strong as one would think. Again most of their squad plays in China.
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China are still capable of punching above their weight especially in continental competitions though, with Wuhan Jiangda currently the Asian club champions, in addition to the fact that they went all the way last time the Women's Asian Cup was held in Australia and have the best overall win-loss record outright.
 
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