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It’s that time of year again as your Shenhua correspondents Steve Crooks and Cameron Wilson take a look back at how the squad performed during 2013, a year in which expectations were exceeded. Comparing and contrasting this review… Read More
Guangzhou Evergrande 2-0 Al-Ahly FIFA Club World Cup Quarter-final Elkeson 49′, Conca 67′ In their first appearance in the FIFA Club World Cup, Guangzhou Evergrande defeated Egyptian giants Al Ahly 2-0 to set up a semi-final encounter against… Read More
After the second leg of the CFA final last Saturday, which saw Guizhou Renhe deny Guangzhou Evergrande the treble, four Evergrande supporters and sometime contributers to (Damian, Piers, Fee, and GZBiffo) gathered to discuss which players had been… Read More
Guangzhou Evergrande 2-1 (2-3 agg.) Guizhou Renhe CFA Cup Final, second leg Feng Junyan 59′, Conca 61′; Yu Hai 27′ After a 2-0 victory in the home leg last weekend, Guizhou Renhe went to Tianhe Stadium knowing that… Read More
Guizhou Renhe 2-0 Guangzhou Evergrande CFA Cup Final, Leg 1 Yu Hai 51′, 67‘ Guangzhou Evergrande’s slogan is having “never won enough”, but that may have come to its conclusion after Guizhou Renhe’s Yu Hai knocked in a… Read More
CFA Cup Semi-final, both legs Beijing Guoan 0-1 Guangzhou Evergrande Muriqui 80′ Guangzhou Evergrande 6-3 Beijing Guoan Elkeson 33′, Conca 43′, 89′, Zhang Linpeng 58′, Huang Bowen 78′, Muriqui 80′; Utaka 55′, 67′, 69′ Guangzhou Evergrande will face… Read More
Capped once by Canada at the beginning of 2013, Mason Trafford ended the Chinese season without a club after Guizhou Zhicheng suffered relegation to a league where foreign players are not permitted. On the last day of the… Read More
Former EPL star Yakubu Aiyegbeni is enjoying some of the form of his career at Guangzhou R&F after being reunited with his old Leicester boss, ex-England manager Sven Goran-Eriksson, with the “Yak” scoring 15 goals in 29 games… Read More
Harbin Yiteng won a nail-biting final day promotion from China League One with a 5-2 win over Chongqing F.C. and Aussie Adam Hughes, 31, played a vital role in the North East side going up. Yiteng in third… Read More
Guangzhou R&F recorded their best ever China Super League finish, sixth, but it still felt like a disappointing year because either side of a run of fantastic mid-season form were two patches of terrible results which meant the… Read More
