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A ruthless Japan thrashed India 11-0 to scope the Women's Asian Cup quarter-finals acknowledgment to hat-tricks from Hinata Miyazawa and Riko Ueki connected Saturday (March 7, 2026) portion Taiwan held off a precocious Vietnam propulsion to unafraid a 1-0 victory, their archetypal triumph of the tournament.
Group C leaders Japan, champions successful 2014 and 2018, chopped done India's hapless defence with easiness portion the southbound Asian broadside failed to person a azygous changeable in the crippled that was played predominantly successful India's half astatine Perth Rectangular Stadium.
Japan overwhelmed India in the archetypal fractional and were 5-0 up astatine halftime with a superb curling effort from Yuzuki Yamamoto successful the 4th minute, a Yui Hasegawa goal, a brace from Miyazawa and a Kiko Seike penalty.
With a comfy lead, Japan made 3 changes astatine halftime but they did not relent arsenic substitute Riko Ueki scored doubly successful 3 minutes earlier completing an 18-minute hat-trick aft Maya Hijikata besides got connected the scoresheet.
Miyazawa capped disconnected the rout by completing her ain hat-trick successful the 81st minute, sealing an 11-0 scoreline that highlighted the gulf successful people betwixt Asia's highest-ranked squad successful the satellite and their hapless opponents 59 rungs beneath them.
In the earlier Group C lucifer successful Perth, Taiwan's Su Yu-hsuan scored with a first-half header to springiness the three-times Asian champions the lead, with some sides otherwise struggling to find cohesion successful onslaught earlier the break.
Vietnam, quarter-finalists astatine the erstwhile edition, had 9 attempts connected extremity but nary connected target, portion Taiwan stayed organised astatine the backmost to sphere their advantage.
A precocious VAR reappraisal for a imaginable punishment for Vietnam did not output a determination and Taiwan moved into 2nd spot successful Group C connected 3 points.
