India, March 7 -- Japan's 11-0 win against India in the AFC Women's Asian Cup in Perth on Saturday reflected where the countries are in their football journey. As the former world champions and twice winners of this competition cruised into the quarter-finals, India careered towards the exit having qualified to be among the continent's top 12 teams for the first time. How India lift themselves against Chinese Taipei on Tuesday from the biggest defeat of the competition is possibly the only point of interest remaining in their campaign.

A contest between professional and part-timers is likely to be lop-sided. Not so lop-sided to be India's fourth worst defeat, and the biggest since a 12-0 loss to China in 2003, they would have hoped espec...