On the evening of April 14, Beijing time, the 6th round of the Chinese Super League ushered in the focus battle, and Shanghai Port sat at home to face Shandong Taishan.
The two teams have been in very different situations recently, and Shandong Taishan returned to the league into a slump after exiting the AFC Champions League. Not only that, the team has suffered serious injury problems, Wang Dalei will basically be out for a while, Cressan and Fernando are sitting on the bench, and Li Yuanyi has finally returned to the team's squad and is on standby.
It is worth noting that this game is the first time that Shanghai Port has fielded 5 foreign players in the season. Shanghai Port won 3 and drew 2 in the first 5 rounds, while Shandong Taishan won 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.
Just seven minutes into the game, Shanghai Port scored the goal. Oscar took a tactical corner, and Li Shuai's volley was quite exciting. The second wave of the harbor's attack made Shandong Taishan's defense take care of the other, and Gustavo scored his first goal in the Chinese Super League with ease.
Just five minutes later, Shandong Taishan equalised in a dramatic goal. Kazaishvili picked up the ball in the box and the ball went in and out of the box and came to his feet.
Kazaishvili shot with his feet, the ball hit Zhang Linpeng's body and changed direction, Yan Junling couldn't save, this goal was counted as Zhang Linpeng's own goal.
The two teams returned to the same running line, but Shandong Taishan had just been excited for a few minutes before being hit again, Pato strained the back of his thigh, and after only 20 minutes of play, he was replaced by Delgado.
In the 23rd minute, Yan Junling sent a knife mountain ball, Shandong Taishan completed the steal, Delgado shot at a small angle, and Shandong Taishan overtook the score.
In the 29th minute, Judson decisively inserted and jumped high in the middle to score a goal, and Shandong Taishan took a two-goal lead.
In the 33rd minute, Shanghai Port pulled one back, Gustavo's shot was saved by Liu Shibo, and Cittadini made up for it to pull one back.
For the remainder of the first half, both teams still had chances to score, especially Harbour, who were playing at home, and kept squandering good chances, and at half-time, Harbour was still 2-3 down.
After the start of the second half, Harbour's attack was still ferocious. In the 54th minute, Harbour's quick throw-in worked.
Li Shuai passed the ball to the goal, and Wu Lei outflanked it in place to equalize. Wu Lei scored his sixth goal of the season, with an average of one goal per round, and his form was bursting.
The duel between the giants is often full of ups and downs. Cui Kangxi was dissatisfied with the penalty, and Ma Ning showed a red card and sent him to the stands.
The game was interrupted for a few minutes, and on the other side, Judson suffered a thigh injury and could not hold on, and Shandong Taishan injured two defenders in a row.
In the 73rd minute, Harbour took the lead, Oscar crossed from the bottom, Wu Lei hovered in the air, and scored the seventh goal of his season.
In the 87th minute, Yan Junling saved Fernando's close-range shot. In the end, in this spark-ridden matchup of the Chinese Super League, Shanghai Port reversed Shandong Taishan 4-3.