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After waiting 20 years for their first top flight pro team, fans in Harbin came out in large number to watch their sides’ first CSL match, but Beijing Guoan’s Chen Zhizhao made them wait longer before they can… Read More
The red and blue halves of Shanghai were made to settle for a draw on Saturday afternoon in a fiery encounter at Shanghai Stadium. Despite the miserable weather conditions across the city, over 23,000 fans turned up to… Read More
There was no change at the top of the log this week as the top four teams all won to keep it really tight. Elsewhere, Harbin are still with out points as their struggles continue. Wild East Football… Read More
Round 9 sees Shanghai Shenhua welcome free-scoring Guangzhou R&F to Hongkou. Can the southerners prick the bubble of the Batista bounce and begin to improve their away record? Yuexiushan News and Preview by Donald Ross R&F eased to… Read More
“Minimum spend” or “最低消费“ has become the buzzword among fans of Guangzhou Evergrande to describe their expectations of their team in home matches over the past two seasons, where three or four goals are often seen as a… Read More
Two goals from in-form Davi and a Jiang Ning thunderbolt gave Guangzhou R&F victory over a disappointingly poor Dalian Aerbin side. The visitors were perhaps rattled by the controversial penalty awarded against them in the first half but… Read More
This weekend the Evergrande squad go on probably their least favourite CSL road trip, to the home of Liaoning Whowin. They worked up enormous enmity with the Shenyang crowd over three seasons of fractious games, but now that… Read More
This Saturday sees the third Shanghai derby of the season, as East Asia play host to Shenhua at Shanghai Stadium. In what should undoubtedly prove to be a much closer encounter than the last Shanghai derby – East… Read More
Harbin Yiteng will play its first ever top flight home match this weekend, facing off against Beijing Guoan. Unfortunately, fans in the Ice City have had to wait far too long for this match, their club starting off… Read More
Guangzhou R&F were second to Dalian Aerbin as both sides were promoted to the CSL in 2011 and have finished behind the dongbei club in both seasons thereafter. Will R&F extract a measure of revenge on Saturday or… Read More
