On the evening of the 16th, Jiezhi Club from Hong Kong, China completed the first victory of Chinese football in this year's AFC Champions League! Although not a club owned by the Chinese Football Association, Hong Kong is still a part of chinese football as a whole. Hong Kong Super League champion Jai Chi's first-round opponent is Thai Super League team Chiang Rai United, which is also a regular in the AFC Champions League, with certain strength and experience.
This season, the 40-year-old Chinese Super League foreign aid Dejan still starts for Jiezhi, but it is the new Turkmenistan striker Mingazov who grabs the lead. Although the person has no reputation in Asian football, he has more than 10 years of experience in lithuanian, Czech and Kazakh leagues, and has participated in famous competitions such as the Champions League and the Europa League (including qualification rounds and play-offs). Such an experience in the Hong Kong Super League is a big name. This match was also the first official match of Mingasov on behalf of Jezhi, which was considered a debut. The 30-year-old Turkmen international also lived up to expectations, seizing the opportunity to score in the opening 17 minutes and scoring his debut goal in the AFC Champions League.
In the end, The Jasch team from Hong Kong, China, held out the score of 1-0 until the end of the game, winning the first victory of Chinese football in this year's AFC Champions League. The starting lineup of the Jiezhi team in this game is only midfielders Luo Zijun and An Yongjia, who are authentic Hong Kong native players, and the rest of the players other than Deyang and Mingatsov are all "mixed-race naturalized", which is also the factor that the Hong Kong Super League champion can have a certain ability to compete for the qualification in the AFC Champions League. These "old fritters" on the field, their football experience is far more than the young men of the Guangzhou Shandong team.
It is worth mentioning that the 40-year-old Montenegrin foreign player Dejan played 90 minutes in the starting game, and was not replaced until injury time. Although De Young did not get a single shot in this game, his role as a forward arrow created offensive space and scoring opportunities for other players. Since Shanghai Harbour withdrew from the competition in Group J, where Jie Zhi is in, they will have the opportunity to compete for the right to qualify from the group. The next opponent will be Iniesta's J-League powerhouse Kobe Victory Ship.