AFC Champions League: First Leg Kashiwa Reysol 1-3 Guangzhou Evergrande paulinho scored a nice free kick. video: http://v.opahnet.com/soccer/v515277.html
Guangzhou Evergrande tied Kashiwa Reysol 1-1 (4-2 on aggregate) in the quarterfinals. They'll meet either Gamba Osaka or Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors in the semifinals.
Attendance figuers after Round 25 of the top two divisions CSL Total attendance 4,459,064 Average 22,295 Club Average Guangzhou Evergrande 45522 Beijing Guoan 40389 Chongqing Lifan 38640 Jiangsu Sainty 29957 Shanghai SIPG 26293 Shijiazhuang Ever Bright 25334 Shandong Luneng 21650 Shanghai Greenland Shenhua 20712 Henan Jianye 20305 Tianjin Teda 17788 Changchun Yatai 15582 Guizhou Renhe 13624 Liaoning Whowin 12949 Hangzhou Greentown 12446 Guangzhou R&F 7764 Shanghai Shenxin 7136 CL1 Total attendance 1,754,038 Average 8,814 Club Average Yanbian Changbaishan 24333 Harbin Yiteng 23107 Hohhot Zhongyou 18721 Dalian Aerbin 12194 Shenzhen FC 11377 Tianjin Songjiang 7831 Hebei CF 6617 Beijing BG 5854 Qingdao Hainiu 5705 Wuhan Zall 5584 Qingdao Jonoon 5467 Jiangxi Liansheng 4648 Xinjiang 4509 Hunan Billows 2320 Guizhou Zhicheng 1864 Beijing BIT 1827
It's crazy! The bid for 2016-2020 CSL Broadcast right launch on September 25th. The bidders include CCTVSE, China Media Group(Ti'ao Power), SMG GreatTV, GDTV, CCTVSE is CCTV5, the “national team” of media. China Media Group purchased the broadcast rights of Team China. while GDTV and Great TV are the local TV media in Guangdong and Shanghai. China Media Group(Ti'ao Power) won the bid at a price of 8 billion RMB (1,255.2 million USD), in term of average price per year, which is almost 20 times of the current price for 2015 — RMB 80 million. in particular,the price for new broadcasts rights is, annually 156.9m USD for 2016 & 2017, annually 313.8m USD for 2018, 2019 & 2020. The rights fee is even higher than that of the English Premier League in Mainland China, which was RMB 1 billion covering a period from 2013 to 2019 and was renewed by Super Sports in 2012.
Guangzhou 2-1 Gamba Osaka Huang Bowen with another beautiful equaliser after Guangzhou had gone down 1-0 after an own goal by Feng Xiaoting. Zheng Zhi scored the winner in the second half with a powerful header. Elkeson provided both assists. Guangzhou put on a dominant performance but didn't create that many clear cut chances. Gamba were organised at the back and proved dangerous on the counter, at least in the first half. The second half were all Guangzhou as Gamba defended with pretty much the whole team except Patric who were left isolated at the top. Guangzhou had like 24 shots to Gamba's 7, but most of Guangzhou's were long shots who were nowhere near the target.
Huang Bowen has scored some amazing goals in the knockout stages this year. Shame he isn't in the national team as he's in the form of his life.
Perrin seems like he already has chosen his core of players and unfortunately most of us on this forum disagree with some of his selections. Shame that he probably won't change his mindset anytime soon either.
Impressive. Now the clubs need to ensure they spend some of that on the development of the domestic player.
CSL 2015 Round 30 Beijing Guo'an 0-2 Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao 53,526 Shanghai Greenland Shenhua 3-1 Jiangsu Guoxin Sainty 13,831 Hangzhou Greentown 4-2 Shanghai Shenxin 17,544 Shanghai SIPG 2-1 Liaoning Whowin 41,071 Henan Jianye 1-0 Guangzhou R&F 20,111 Guizhou Renhe 2-2 Changchun Yatai 25,381 Chongqing Lifan 1-1 Tianjin Teda 33,588 Shandong Luneng Taishan 3-1 Shijiazhuang Ever Bright 20,172 Round 30 total attendance 225,224 Average 28,153 CSL 2015 Total attendance 5,326,304 average 22,193 Code: Table Pos Team Pts 1 Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao 67 2016 ACL 2 Shanghai SIPG 65 2016 ACL 3rd qualifying round 3 Shandong Luneng Taishan 59 2016 ACL 2nd qualifying round 4 Beijing Guoan 56 5 Henan Jianye 46 6 Shanghai Greenland Shenhua 42 7 Shijiazhuang Ever Bright 39 8 Chongqing Lifan 35 9 Jiangsu Guoxin Sainty 35 10 Changchun Yatai 35 11 Hangzhou Greentown 33 12 Liaoning Whowin 31 13 Tianjin Teda 31 14 Guangzhou R&F 31 15 Guizhou Renhe 29 Relegation to China League One 16 Shanghai Shenxin 17 Relegation to China League One Code: Average attendance by team Club Average attendance Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao 45889 Beijing Guoan 40997 Chongqing Lifan 37595 Jiangsu Guoxin Sainty 26858 Shanghai SIPG 26381 Shijiazhuang Ever Bright 25070 Shandong Luneng 22559 Henan Jianye 20207 Tianjin Teda 19661 Shanghai Greenland Shenhua 19506 Guizhou Renhe 15139 Changchun Yatai 14855 Liaoning Whowin 12788 Hangzhou Greentown 12566 Guangzhou R&F 7989 Shanghai Shenxin 7028
guangzhou evergrande won 2-0 away beijing guoan evergrande retained its CSL title. while guizhou 2-2 changchun yatai, this results leads to the relegation of guizhou.
AFC Champions League Final first leg! Starting XI: Zeng Cheng, Zhang Linpeng, Mei Fang, Feng Xiaoting, Li Xuepeng, Zheng Zhi, Huang Bowen, Paulinho, Elkeson, Goulart, Zheng Long
Full time: Guangzhou Evergrande 0-0 Al Ahli A tough game all around. Al Ahli's right back Haikal got sent off for slapping Gao Lin so he'll be suspended for the second leg.
What's the news on Goulart's injury? It looked pretty bad, but I've read that it's only a twisted ankle, which doesn't seem accurate if he was iffy for the 2nd leg. First game didn't look that tough to me, Evergrande had most of the good chances, dictated the pace well, and were pretty unlucky not to have scored that key away goal. All of Al-Ahli's chances were long shots or headers from floated crosses. Given that they'll get a few weeks of well deserved rest now, I'm quite hopeful they'll be able to secure that 2nd ACL title this year.
2015 CSL awards: Most valuable player: Ricardo Goulart Best goalkeeper: Zeng Cheng Best manager: Luiz Felipe Scholari Top goalscorer: Aloisio Top Chinese goalscorer: Wu Lei Team of the season: Zeng Cheng, Zhang Linpeng, Feng Xiaoting, Kim Young-Gwon, Xu Yunlong, Wu Xi, Huang Bowen, Zheng Zhi, Dario Conca, Wu Lei, Ricardo Goulart
Guangzhou 1 - 0 Al Ahli Zeng Cheng got injured first half, looks like an ankle problem. Elkeson with a really nice goal off a brilliant touch. Al Ahli saw a red after one of their players pulled down Zheng Long then jumped over him but landed on/stomped his ribcage depending on your affiliation (this is reminiscent of that ridiculous red card given to Gao Lin last year against WSW, except contact was clearly made today). Zheng Long looked pretty gassed after that, whether it be an actual injury from that or he was just tired, we'll find out. Al Ahli really turned it on after that red though and had some pretty good pressure and half chances against Guangzhou for the last 15 minutes. Elkeson had a great chance to make it 2-0 in the dying minutes after industrious work from Zhang Linpeng, but missed the target. Paulinho was a great stopper in midfield. Zhang Linpeng was industrious and a lot of opportunities came from his side. Goulart did well as always, but ran out of gas. Elkeson scored obviously. Defense was the typical, generally tight with moments of panic. Zheng Long looked good until he ran out of gas at around 75 min. Huang Bowen and Zheng Zhi did well, but sat back mostly. Scolari didn't use subs until the 84th minute or so, which was odd because some members of the team were clearly tired. Either way, 2nd AFC title in 3 years. Looking forward to the Club World Cup next month to see if they can do better than last time!