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This weekend’s Chinese Super League action sees the return of the Shanghai Derby. At last, once more, we appear to have once more settled upon a deserving rivalry for such a title—the Shanghai International Port Group against Greenland-backed… Read More
A slightly disingenuous name perhaps but the third anniversary of the founding of Guangzhou R&F provides your correspondent with a chance to select his eleven; conforming to CSL foreign player rules of course which only allow five foreigners… Read More
Thanks to a much improved defensive and away record compared to the previous two seasons Guangzhou R&F are third in the Chinese Super League. There are several clubs chasing that spot but if new signing Abderazzak Hamdallah continues… Read More
A late equaliser, beautiful goals, a moment of madness, horrific challenges, red cards, two stretchered off and a disallowed goal all featured in a pulsating encounter under the lights at a wet Yuexiushan. Tobias Hysen first put Shanghai… 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
On Easter Sunday it was Guangzhou R&F who looked dead and buried at half time as they were 2-0 down away to Changchun Yatai only to rise and stage a miraculous comeback to win 3-2 with Davi scoring… Read More
Abderazzak Hamdallah and Davi both scored one from the spot and one from open play as their Guangzhou R&F side dispatched Henan Jianye without needing to reach top gear. Two first half penalties, the second dubious, knocked the… Read More
Guangzhou R&F succumbed to their first defeat of the season on Monday night when they lost 2-0 away to Beijing Guoan. The Cantonese side improved greatly after two half-time substitutions which indicates that manager Sven Goran Eriksson got… Read More
Will R&F continue their unbeaten start to the year? Will Beijing bounce back from their loss at Shanghai East Asia? Will R&F avenge their 6-0 humbling at Gongti last year? Can Abderazzak Hamdallah make it a hat-trick of… Read More
R&F put six goals past Hangzhou to ensure that the match will be remembered as much for Abderazzak Hamdallah’s ten minute hat-trick as the state of the pitch. Undaunted by the swamp like nature of the playing surface… Read More
