On June 8, Beijing time, the first Shanghai derby of the season took place at the Puwan Stadium in Dalian.
Shanghai Shenhua (soccer team)
With goals from Bassogo and Yang Xu, the team beat Shanghai Seaport 2-0. Seaport suffered two consecutive losses in the season. After the match, Harbor head coach Leco said he was satisfied with his team's performance, but lost because he didn't seize the opportunity to kill the game.
After the match, Harbour Head Coach Leko said: "The match was actually okay, both sides wanted to fight for the victory and wanted to take 3 points, the result of the match depends on the performance of individual ability and the grasp of the opportunity on the field, when there is an opportunity you need to go to kill the game, today we had the opportunity to not grasp the opportunity, the opponents grasped the opportunity. Congratulations to Shenhua, their performance today was a little better than ours and their luck was better than ours, I don't have any criticism of the players. Their fighting spirit and will to fight are very good. Now this situation is something that no one wants to see."
Speaking about when N'Diaye will be able to play, Leake said, "He just went through a two-month isolation and just practiced with the team for two days, but I don't know how to answer your question, and your question is a good one, the problems that we have with the offensive line, they don't come exclusively from the offensive line. Our team's situation is still different from other teams, we need at least 6-7 weeks, if not two months, for the team to be fully prepared, and when we have a good preparation period, we can talk about who is in good shape and who is not. It's still difficult for me to answer whether Ndiaye will be the answer to our forward line."
Cai Huikang, who had limited appearances last season, made his second consecutive start this season, and on the reasons for such a selection, Leko said, "This involves our internal issues, which I am not at liberty to answer."
Regarding the performance of Paulinho, who came on as a substitute, Lecco said, "Paulinho, like Oscar, is a very strong member of our team, he didn't play in several of the matches we lost last season, but unfortunately he wasn't in a very good shape for the new season, we tried very hard to get him to an optimal state, but unfortunately it's not there yet, the previous the four months of training is not systematic, so that he led to the state of decline." (Sohu Sports Pei Li)
