The 2023 FA Super Cup officially began with last season's Chinese Super League champions Wuhan Sanzhen taking on Shandong Taishan in the first match of the new Chinese Football League season in front of 26,998 spectators. In the end, Wuhan Sanzhen relied on the combined goals of Aziz and Xie Pengfei to beat Shandong Taishan 2-0, winning their first title of the new season and their first Super Cup title.
Last season, Wuhan Three Town led all the way to the championship, becoming the second team after Guangzhou to win the Chinese Super League title as a promotion horse. The lineup has been strengthened somewhat with the introduction of Wei Shihao and Yan Dinghao from Guangzhou in the new season transfer window.
Shandong Taishan, who finished second in the Chinese Super League, missed out on defending their Chinese Super League title and ended up winning the FA Cup for the third consecutive time. Meanwhile, the team won the title for the eighth time in its history and went on to set a new all-time record. In the transfer window of the new season, Shandong Taishan introduced seven new assistance, including naturalized international Fernando, Hu Jinghang, Huang Zhengyu and Liu Shibo.
Statistically, this is Shandong Taishan's second participation in the Super Cup after 8 years. Now, facing Wuhan Sanzhen who participated in the Super Cup for the first time, Shandong Taishan suffered a complete defeat. The match was enforced by international referee Ma Ning, with Fu Ming as the fourth official and Wang Di as the VAR referee.
In the 10th minute of the opening match, Wei Shihao broke through with the ball on the side, broke through the bottom line of the penalty area and assisted Aziz's header to help Wuhan Sanzhen take a 1-0 lead.
Wei Shihao moved from Guangzhou to Wuhan Sanzhen in the new season. Today is also his 28th birthday. He issued a wonderful assist in front of his old master. Statistically, Wei Shihao has played 9 matches in his career with Shandong Taishan, contributing 4 goals and 2 assists.
In the second half, Shandong Taishan strengthened their offense and Wuhan Sanzhen seized the opportunity to expand the score by counterattack. In the 56th minute, Xie Pengfei's breakthrough was intercepted and Stanciu went directly into the penalty area to help Xie Pengfei advance, making the score 2-0 and putting Shandong Taishan in despair.
In the 87th minute, Sun Junho flew at Davidson's ankle and referee Maning showed a direct red card to the former.
From there, neither team changed the score. Wuhan Sanzhen relied on first and second half goals to win the Super Cup 2-0, but Shandong Taishan lost.
With the win, Wuhan Sanzhen won the first title of the new season, the first Super Cup title in the team's history, and the first double title in the team's history to be crowned Super League and Super Cup champions. In addition, they scored the first goal of the Super Cup in the team's history, setting four records.
