With a 3-2 win over Chiang Rai United, Jai Chi Ho won the second AFC Champions League against Chinese teams, while the last Chinese team to win in the AFC Champions League was Still Kit Chi. With a double kill against Chiang Rai United in the season, Jai Chi won 6 points and will advance to the knockout round for the first time in the case of SIPG's withdrawal.
In the third round of the AFC Champions League Group J, the Jai Chi team from Hong Kong, China, faced Thailand's rival Chiang Rai United. In the first leg of the match, the Jays had won 1-0. In this campaign, the Jiezhi team sent the strongest lineup to start, including Deyang, who is very familiar to Chinese fans.
In the first half of stoppage time, Takaharu Hirota made a point, and Bithiva scored the penalty to break the deadlock for Chiang Rai United.
In the 55th minute of the second half, Alex received the ball in front of the penalty area and turned to shoot vigorously, and the ball went straight into the bottom right corner of the opponent's goal. In the 70th minute, Jai Chi team opened a corner on the left side, the front point player flicked his head to attack the goalpost, and Dejan waited for the back point to open the goal and easily make up for the goal, for the team to reverse the score to 2-1.
In the 79th minute, Chiang Rai United's cross from the left was met by Ambam's header to tie the score at 2-2. Just 3 minutes later, The Jay Chi team broke the ball at the back and counter-attacked quickly, Shala's low shot from the left side of the penalty area was saved by the goalkeeper, and Luo Zijun reacted quickly and shoveled the goal at the first time. 3-2, The Jay Chi team killed the opponent.
At present, The Team is second in the group with 6 points, just 1 point away from the top of the group, Kobe. Due to SIPG's early withdrawal, the rules for qualifying for this AFC Champions League have been changed, and teams must first deduct the result of the last place in the group when calculating the ranking.
At present, the situation of the eastern divisions after deducting the results from the last place is as follows: Group F (top two) Daegu 4 points, Urawa 7 points. Group G Melbourne has 6 points and Baton United has 5 points. Group H Yokohama 6 points, Jeonbuk 7 points. Group I, Johor and Ulsan are both 4 points.
That is to say, before the final round, the Jiezhi team is tied for second in the second place in the second place of each group (the top three advance). So, this season they are still very promising to qualify for the knockout rounds. And if they can break through to the knockout rounds, they will create their best results in the AFC Champions League. As the former AFC Champions League fish belly team, the Jiezhi team is now turning over and carrying the banner of the Chinese team, which makes the faces of the Giants of the Chinese Super League go?